The burden
which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
02 O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt
not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and
thou wilt not save!
03 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me
to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence
are before me: and there are that raise up strife
and contention.
04 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment
doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass
about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment
proceedeth.
05 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and
wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in
your days which ye will not believe, though it be
told you.
06 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter
and hasty nation, which shall march through the
breadth of the land, to possess the
dwellingplaces that are not their's.
07 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment
and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
08 Their horses also are swifter than the
leopards, and are more fierce than the evening
wolves: and their horsemen shall spread
themselves, and their horsemen shall come from
far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to
eat.
09 They shall come all for violence: their faces
shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall
gather the captivity as the sand.
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10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the
princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall
deride every strong hold; for they shall heap
dust, and take it.
11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass
over, and offend, imputing this his power unto
his god.
12 Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God,
mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou
hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty
God, thou hast established them for correction.
13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil,
and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest
thou upon them that deal treacherously, and
holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the
man that is more righteous than he?
14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as
the creeping things, that have no ruler over
them?
15 They take up all of them with the angle, they
catch them in their net, and gather them in their
drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and
burn incense unto their drag; because by them
their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not
spare continually to slay the nations?
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