1:1 The burden breadth of the which Habakkuk land, to possess the prophet did the see. dwellingplaces 1:2 O LORD, how [that are] not long shall I cry, theirs. and thou wilt not 1:7 They [are] hear! [even] cry terrible and out unto thee dreadful: their [of] violence, judgment and and thou wilt not their dignity save! shall proceed of 1:3 Why dost themselves. thou show me 1:8 Their horses iniquity, and also are swifter cause [me] to than the behold grievance? leopards, and are for spoiling and more fierce than violence [are] the evening before me: and wolves: and their there are [that] horsemen shall raise up strife spread and contention. themselves, and 1:4 Therefore their horsemen the law is shall come from slacked, and far; they shall judgment doth fly as the eagle never go forth: [that] hasteth to for the wicked eat. doth compass 1:9 They shall about the come all for righteous; violence: their therefore wrong faces shall sup judgment up [as] the east proceedeth. wind, and they 1:5 Behold ye shall gather the among the captivity as the heathen, and sand. regard, and 1:10 And they wonder shall scoff at marvellously: for the kings, and [I] will work a the princes shall work in your be a scorn unto days, [which] ye them: they shall will not believe, deride every though it be told strong hold; for [you]. they shall heap 1:6 For, lo, I dust, and take raise up the it. Chaldeans, [that] 1:11 Then shall bitter and hasty [his] mind nation, which change, and he shall march shall pass over, through the and offend, [imputing] this because by them his power unto their portion his god. [is] fat, and 1:12 [Art] thou their meat not from plenteous. everlasting, O 1:17 Shall they LORD my God, mine therefore empty Holy One? we their net, and shall not die. O not spare LORD, thou hast continually to ordained them for slay the nations? judgment; and, O mighty God, thou 2:1 I will stand hast established upon my watch, them for and set me upon correction. the tower, and 1:13 [Thou art] will watch to see of purer eyes what he will say than to behold unto me, and what evil, and canst I shall answer not look on when I am iniquity: reproved. wherefore lookest 2:2 And the LORD thou upon them answered me, and that deal said, Write the treacherously, vision, and make [and] holdest thy [it] plain upon tongue when the tables, that he wicked devoureth may run that [the man that is] readeth it. more righteous 2:3 For the than he? vision [is] yet 1:14 And makest for an appointed men as the fishes time, but at the of the sea, as end it shall the creeping speak, and not things, [that lie: though it have] no ruler tarry, wait for over them? it; because it 1:15 They take will surely come, up all of them it will not with the angle, tarry. they catch them 2:4 Behold, his in their net, and soul [which] is gather them in lifted up is not their drag: upright in him: therefore they but the just rejoice and are shall live by his glad. faith. 1:16 Therefore 2:5 Yea also, they sacrifice because he unto their net, transgresseth by and burn incense wine, [he is] a unto their drag; proud man, neither keepeth delivered from at home, who the power of enlargeth his evil! desire as hell, 2:10 Thou hast and [is] as consulted shame death, and cannot to thy house by be satisfied, but cutting off many gathereth unto people, and hast him all nations, sinned [against] and heapeth unto thy soul. him all people: 2:11 For the 2:6 Shall not stone shall cry all these take up out of the wall, a parable against and the beam out him, and a of the timber taunting proverb shall answer it. against him, and 2:12 Woe to him say, Woe to him that buildeth a that increaseth town with blood, [that which is] and stablisheth a not his! how city by iniquity! long? and to him that ladeth 2:13 Behold, [is himself with it] not of the thick clay! LORD of hosts 2:7 Shall they that the people not rise up shall labour in suddenly that the very fire, shall bite thee, and the people and awake that shall weary shall vex thee, themselves for and thou shalt be very vanity? for booties unto 2:14 For the them? earth shall be 2:8 Because thou filled with the hast spoiled many knowledge of the nations, all the glory of the remnant of the LORD, as the people shall waters cover the spoil thee; sea. because of men's 2:15 Woe unto blood, and [for] him that giveth the violence of his neighbour the land, of the drink, that city, and of all puttest thy that dwell bottle to [him], therein. and makest [him] 2:9 Woe to him drunken also, that coveteth an that thou mayest evil covetousness look on their to his house, nakedness! that he may set 2:16 Thou art his nest on high, filled with shame that he may be for glory: drink thou also, and 3:1 A prayer of let thy foreskin Habakkuk the be uncovered: the prophet upon cup of the LORD'S Shigionoth. right hand shall 3:2 O LORD, I be turned unto have heard thy thee, and speech, [and] was shameful spewing afraid: O LORD, [shall be] on thy revive thy work glory. in the midst of 2:17 For the the years, in the violence of midst of the Lebanon shall years make known; cover thee, and in wrath remember the spoil of mercy. beasts, [which] 3:3 God came made them afraid, from Teman, and because of men's the Holy One from blood, and for mount Paran. the violence of Selah. His glory the land, of the covered the city, and of all heavens, and the that dwell earth was full of therein. his praise. 2:18 What 3:4 And [his] profiteth the brightness was as graven image that the light; he had the maker thereof horns [coming] hath graven it; out of his hand: the molten image, and there [was] and a teacher of the hiding of his lies, that the power. maker of his work 3:5 Before him trusteth therein, went the to make dumb pestilence, and idols? burning coals 2:19 Woe unto went forth at his him that saith to feet. the wood, Awake; 3:6 He stood, to the dumb and measured the stone, Arise, it earth: he beheld, shall teach! and drove asunder Behold, it [is] the nations; and laid over with the everlasting gold and silver, mountains were and [there is] no scattered, the breath at all in perpetual hills the midst of it. did bow: his ways 2:20 But the [are] LORD [is] in his everlasting. holy temple: let 3:7 I saw the all the earth tents of Cushan keep silence in affliction: before him. [and] the curtains of the 3:13 Thou land of Midian wentest forth for did tremble. the salvation of 3:8 Was the LORD thy people, displeased [even] for against the salvation with rivers? [was] thine anointed; thine anger thou woundedst against the the head out of rivers? [was] thy the house of the wrath against the wicked, by sea, that thou discovering the didst ride upon foundation unto thine horses the neck. Selah. [and] thy 3:14 Thou didst chariots of strike through salvation? with his staves 3:9 Thy bow was the head of his made quite naked, villages: they [according] to came out as a the oaths of the whirlwind to tribes, [even scatter me: their thy] word. Selah. rejoicing [was] Thou didst cleave as to devour the the earth with poor secretly. rivers. 3:15 Thou didst 3:10 The walk through the mountains saw sea with thine thee, [and] they horses, [through] trembled: the the heap of great overflowing of waters. the water passed 3:16 When I by: the deep heard, my belly uttered his trembled; my lips voice, [and] quivered at the lifted up his voice: rottenness hands on high. entered into my 3:11 The sun bones, and I [and] moon stood trembled in still in their myself, that I habitation: at might rest in the the light of day of trouble: thine arrows they when he cometh up went, [and] at unto the people, the shining of he will invade thy glittering them with his spear. troops. 3:12 Thou didst 3:17 Although march through the the fig tree land in shall not indignation, thou blossom, neither didst thresh the [shall] fruit heathen in anger. [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 3:19 The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. ^Z^Z ~~~~~~