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Habakkuk 1:1 (show verse)
The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Habakkuk 1:2 (show verse)
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?
Habakkuk 1:3 (show verse)
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Habakkuk 1:4 (show verse)
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
Habakkuk 1:5 (show verse)
"Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
Habakkuk 1:6 (show verse)
For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
Habakkuk 1:7 (show verse)
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Habakkuk 1:8 (show verse)
Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
Habakkuk 1:9 (show verse)
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
Habakkuk 1:10 (show verse)
Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
Habakkuk 1:11 (show verse)
Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."
Habakkuk 1:12 (show verse)
Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
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Habakkuk 1:13 (show verse)
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Habakkuk 1:14 (show verse)
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Habakkuk 1:15 (show verse)
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16 (show verse)
Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
Habakkuk 1:17 (show verse)
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?