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1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! 3 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. 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.[fn]
5 ¶ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 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 theirs.[fn] 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.[fn] 8 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.[fn] 9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.[fn] 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.[fn][fn] 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?[fn] 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?[fn] 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.[fn] 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.[fn] 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
1.4 wrong: or, wrested
1.6 breadth: Heb. breadths
1.7 their judgment…: or, from them shall proceed the judgment of these, and the captivity of these
1.8 fierce: Heb. sharp
1.9 their…: or, the supping up of their faces, etc: or, their faces shall look (Heb. the opposition of their faces) toward the east
1.12 mighty…: Heb. rock
1.12 established: Heb. founded
1.13 iniquity: or, grievance
1.14 creeping: or, moving
1.15 drag: or, flue net
1.16 plenteous: or, dainty: Heb. fat