The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

Why do you cause me to see evil [while] you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise.

"Look among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work [is about to] be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told.

Your eyes [are] too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? [Why] are you silent when the wicked swallows up [someone] more righteous than him?

You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.

I will stand at my post, and station myself on [the] rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint.

Then Yahweh answered me and said, "Write [the] vision and make [it] plain on the tablet so that {it might be read quickly}.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters covering the sea.

Woe to [him who] gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making [them] drunk in order to see their nakedness!

Under affliction I saw the tents of Cushan; the tent curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

Was the anger of Yahweh against the rivers? Was your wrath against the rivers, or your fury against the sea, when you mounted upon your horses, upon your victory chariot?

[When the] mountains saw you they writhed; a torrent of waters swept by; the deep gave its voice; it raised its hands on high.

You trampled upon the sea [with] your horses, the churning of many waters.