Jubilee2000 - Habakkuk - 1

1:1  The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

1:2  O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear; and raise my voice unto thee because of the violence, and thou wilt not save?

1:3  Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity and cause [me] to behold grievance and destruction and violence before me, in addition to those that raise up strife and contention?

1:4  Therefore the law is weakened, and the judgment does not go forth true: for the wicked compasses about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.

1:5  Behold among the Gentiles and regard and wonder marvelously, for a work shall be done in your days [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you].

1:6  For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which march through the breadth of the earth to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.

1:7  She [is] terrible and dreadful: from her herself shall go forth their rights and their grandeur.

1:8  Their horses shall be swifter than tigers and are sharper than the evening wolves, and their horsemen shall multiply themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as eagles [that] hasten to eat.

1:9  All of her shall come for the prey, before their faces an east wind, and they shall gather the captives as the sand.

1:10  And he shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto him, he shall deride every fortress and shall heap dust and take it.

1:11  Then he shall become arrogant [against God], and he shall pass ahead and shall be [found] guilty, [imputing] this his power unto his god.

1:12  [Art] thou not from the beginning, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die, O LORD, thou hast ordained him for judgment, and thou hast established him strong for chastisement.

1:13  [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity: why dost thou look upon those that deal treacherously [and] hold thy tongue when the wicked devour [the man that is] more righteous than he?

1:14  And dost make men as the fishes of the sea, as reptiles [that have] no lord?

1:15  He shall take up all of them with [his] hook; he shall catch them in his net and gather them in his drag: therefore, he shall rejoice and be glad.

1:16  Therefore, he shall sacrifice unto his net and burn incense unto his drag because by them his portion [is] fat, and his food plenteous.

1:17  Shall he therefore empty his net, or have pity to [stop] slaying Gentiles continually?: