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1:1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. Compare
1:2How long, O Jehovah, shall I cry / And You do not hear? / I cry out to You, Violence! / And You do not save. Compare
1:3Why do You cause me to see iniquity / And look upon wrong? / Indeed destruction and violence are before me; / And there is strife, and contention arises. Compare
1:4Therefore the law is ineffective, / And justice never goes forth; / For the wicked encompasses the righteous, / Therefore justice goes forth perverted. Compare
1:5Look among the nations, and see, / And be amazed, utterly amazed. / For I am doing a work in your days / Which you would not believe if it were told you. Compare
1:6For I am about to raise up the Chaldeans, / That bitter and hasty nation / That marches through the breadth of the earth / To possess habitations that are not theirs. Compare
1:7They are terrible and dreadful; / Their judgment and their authority issue from themselves. Compare
1:8And their horses are swifter than leopards / And more agile than the wolves of evening. / And their horsemen prance about; / Indeed their horsemen come from afar; / They fly like an eagle that hastens to devour. Compare
1:9All of them come to do violence; / The set of their faces is forward, / And they gather captives like sand. Compare
1:10Indeed they scoff at kings, / And potentates are a derision to them; / They deride every fortress, / For they heap up dirt and take it. Compare
1:11Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass over / And thus become guilty; this - their strength - is their god. Compare
1:12Are You not from everlasting, O Jehovah, / My God, my Holy One? We will not die. / O Jehovah, You have appointed them for judgment; / And You, O Rock, have established them for correction. Compare
1:13You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil / And who cannot look upon wrong, / Why do You look upon them who deal treacherously / And keep silent when the wicked man swallows up him who is more / righteous than he? Compare
1:14And You make man like the fish of the sea, / Like the creeping things, who have no one to rule for them. Compare
1:15They take all of them up with a hook; / They drag them off in their net / And gather them into their seine; / So they rejoice and exult. Compare
1:16Therefore they offer sacrifices to their net / And burn incense to their seine, / For by them their portion is fat / And their food is plenteous. Compare
1:17Will they then empty their net / And continually slay the nations without sparing? Compare
2:1I will stand at my watch / And station myself on the fortress, / And I will watch to see what He will speak to me / And what I will reply concerning my complaint. Compare
2:2Then Jehovah answered and said, Write the vision, and render it plainly upon tablets, / That even he who runs by may read it. Compare
2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, / And it hastens toward the end and will not lie. / Though it tarries, wait for it; / For it will surely come; it will not delay. Compare
2:4See, he who is puffed up, his soul is not upright within him, / But the righteous one will live by his faith. Compare
2:5Furthermore his wine is treacherous: / A boasting man, he does not abide at home, / He who enlarges his appetite like Sheol, / And is like death and cannot be satisfied, / But gathers to himself all the nations / And collects for himself all the peoples. Compare
2:6Will not all of these take up a parable against him, / Indeed a mocking song and a riddle against him, and say, / Woe to him who increases what is not his (For how long?) / And who loads himself with the burden of pledges? Compare
2:7Will not those who bite you rise up suddenly, / And those who shake you awake, / And you will become booty to them? Compare
2:8Because you have plundered many nations; / All the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, / Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land, / To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it. Compare
2:9Woe to him who by violence takes evil gain for his house, / So as to place his nest on high / That he may be delivered from the hand of evil! Compare
2:10You have devised shame against your own house / By cutting off many peoples, / And have sinned against your own soul. Compare
2:11For the stone will cry out from the wall, / And the rafter will answer from the timber. Compare
2:12Woe to him who builds a city by bloodshed / And establishes a town by iniquity! Compare
2:13Indeed is it not of Jehovah of hosts / That the peoples toil for the fire / And the nations weary themselves for vanity? Compare
2:14For the earth will be filled / With the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah / As water covers the sea. Compare
2:15Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink, / Adding in his poison, / And also making him drunk / In order to look at their nakedness! Compare
2:16You are sated with shame, not glory. / You also, drink and be shown to be uncircumcised! / The cup of Jehovah's right hand will come around to you, / And disgrace will be upon your glory. Compare
2:17For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, / As well as the destruction of the beasts which frightened them, / Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land, / To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it. Compare
2:18What profit is the graven idol that its maker should engrave it, / Or the molten idol, even the teacher of lies, / That he who forms its form depends on it / To make dumb idols? Compare
2:19Woe to him who says to wood, Awake! / And, Arise! to silent stone. / Will it teach him? / Behold, it is set in gold and silver, / And there is no breath at all within it. Compare
2:20But Jehovah is in His holy temple: / Be silent before Him, all the earth! Compare
3:1A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet in shigionoth. Compare
3:2O Jehovah, I have heard the report concerning You and am afraid. / O Jehovah, revive Your work / In the midst of the years; / In the midst of the years make it known; / In wrath remember compassion. Compare
3:3God comes from Teman, / Even the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. / His splendor covers the heavens, / And the earth is filled with His praise. Compare
3:4And His brightness is like the light: / Rays come forth from His hand, / And the hiding of His power is there. Compare
3:5Before Him goes pestilence, / And the fire bolt comes forth at His feet. Compare
3:6He stands and measures the earth; / He looks and startles the nations; / And the ancient mountains are shattered into dust, / And the everlasting hills sink down; / His goings are eternal. Compare
3:7I see the tents of Cushan / Under affliction; / The tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble. Compare
3:8Is it against the rivers, O Jehovah, / Against the rivers that Your anger is kindled? / Is Your overflowing wrath against the sea / That You ride upon Your horses, / Upon Your chariots of salvation? Compare
3:9Your bow is bared utterly; / The rods of discipline are sworn according to Your word. Selah. / You cleave the earth with rivers. Compare
3:10The mountains see You; they writhe; / The tempest of water passes by; / The deep utters its voice, / It lifts its hands high. Compare
3:11The sun and the moon stand still in their high abode / At the light of Your arrows going forth, / At the brightness of Your glittering spear. Compare
3:12In wrath You march through the earth, / In anger You thresh the nations. Compare
3:13You go forth for the salvation of Your people, / For the salvation of Your anointed one, / You strike the head from the house of the wicked one, / Laying bare the foundation, even to the neck. Selah. Compare
3:14You pierce, with his own staves, / The heads of his warriors. / They come out like a whirlwind to scatter me; / Their exultation is as if to devour the poor in secret. Compare
3:15You tread the sea with Your horses, / The heap of mighty waters. Compare
3:16I heard and my body trembled; / My lips quivered at the sound. / Rottenness entered my bones, / And I tremble in my place, / Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, / When he who attacks comes up against the people. Compare
3:17For the fig tree will not sprout, / And there will be no yield on the vines; / The labor on the olive tree will fail, / And the fields will make no food; / The flock will be cut off from the fold, / And there will be no herd in the stalls. Compare
3:18Yet I will exult in Jehovah; / I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. Compare
3:19Jehovah the Lord is my strength; / And He makes my feet like hinds' feet / And will cause me to walk on my high places. / For the choir director, with my stringed instruments. Compare

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