The lifting up which Habbakuk the prophet saw.

Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.

See ye among the nations, and look, and wonder; ye shall wonder: for the working a work in your days ye will not believe if it shall be recounted.

And wilt thou make man as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping thing no ruler over him?

I will stand upon my watch, and be set me upon the fortress, and I will watch to see what he will speak in me, and what I shall turn back upon my reproof.

And Jehovah will answer me and say, Write the vision, and grave upon the tablets, so that he shall run reading in it

For the earth shall be filled to know the glory of Jehovah as the waters shall cover over the sea?

Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness.

He stood, and he will measure the earth: he saw, and he will cause the nations to tremble, and the mountains of eternity will be dispersed, the perpetual hills bowed down: the goings everlasting to him.

I saw the tents of Cushan under vanity: the curtains of the land of strife shall be moved.

Was Jehovah angry against the rivers? if thine anger against the rivers? if thy wrath against the sea? if thou wilt ride upon thy horses, thy chariots of salvation?

They saw thee, the mountains shall tremble: the pouring of the waters passed by: the deep gave his voice, he lifted up his hands on high.

Thou didst tread upon the sea with thy horses, the heap of many waters