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1 Here is the message that the prophet Havakkuk (Habakkuk) saw:
2 For how long, Yahweh, must I call for help before you listen?
≈ I cry out about the violence, but you haven’t rescued me.
3 Why do I have to keep seeing injustice and looking at trouble?
≈ Destruction and violence are all around—there’s such strife, and conflicts keep happening.
4 That’s why the law is paralysed and why justice doesn’t prevail—
because those who do good are surrounded by wicked people, so justice gets perverted.
5 Watch the other countries and observe them, and be astonished and amazed,
because I’m about to do something in your time
that no one will believe would happen, even if they were told about it.[ref]
6 Listen, I’m about to stir up the Babylonians[ref]—
that fierce and impetuous empire
that marches around the world to seize cities for themselves.
They go by their own rules to boost their own pride.
8 Their horses are faster than leopards
and more menacing than the wolves in the evening.
So their horsemen arrive from a great distance, then come charging—
they fly like an eagle that’s swift to devour.
hordes of faces advancing like the wind in the wilderness.
They gather captives like sand.
10 They scoff at kings, and rulers are just a joke to them.
They laugh at fortresses as they pile soil up around them and capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind and move on.
They become guilty of thinking that their own strength is their god.
12 Yahweh, aren’t you the eternal God?
You’re my heavenly protector who won’t die.
Yahweh, you’ve appointed them for judgement.
≈ Our rock, you’ve established them for punishment.
13 Your eyes are too pure to endure seeing evil,
≈ and you’re not able to look on wrongdoing with favour.
Why then have you tolerated those who are treacherous?
≈ Why are you silent while the wicked destroy those who are more godly than them?
14 You’ve made those people like the fish of the sea—
like reptiles that have no ruler.
15 The invader brings them all up with a fishhook.
≈ He drags them up with his fishing net.
He catches them all in his drag net,
which makes him happily celebrate.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his fishing net
≈ and burns incense to his drag net,
because it’s his net that gives him plenty of food,
≈ and his food is the richest kind.
17 So will he keep harvesting with his net?
≈ Will he continue destroying nations without mercy?
