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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word
which
Habakkuk
the
prophet
saw.
\VS{2}How
long,
O
Lord,
will
your ears
be shut
to
my voice?
I
make
an outcry
to
you
about
violent behaviour,
but
you
do
not send
salvation.
\VS{3}Why
do
you
make
me
see evil-doing,
and
why
are
my eyes fixed
on
wrong?
for wasting
and
violent acts
are
before
me:
and
there
is fighting
and bitter argument.
\VS{4}For
this
reason
the
law
is feeble
and
decisions
are
not effected:
for
the upright
man
is circled round
by evil-doers;
because
of which
right
is twisted.
\VS{5}See
among
the
nations,
and
take
note,
and
be
full
of
wonder:
for
in
your
days
I am
doing
a
work
in
which
you
will
have
no belief,
even
if news
of
it
is given
to
you.
\VS{6}For
see,
I
am sending
the Chaldaeans,
that
bitter
and quick-moving
nation;
who
go
through
the wide spaces
of
the
earth
to
get
for themselves living-places
which
are
not theirs.
\VS{7}They
are greatly
to
be
feared:
their
right
comes
from themselves.
\VS{8}And
their
horses
are quicker than
leopards
and
their
horsemen more cruel than
evening
wolves;
they
come
from
far
away,
like
an
eagle
in flight rushing
on
its
food.
\VS{9}They
are
coming
all
of
them
with force;
the
direction
of
their
faces
is
forward,
the number
of
their
prisoners
is
like
the sands
of
the sea.
\VS{10}He makes little
of
kings,
rulers
are
a
sport
to
him;
all
the strong
places
are
to
be
laughed
at;
for
he makes earthworks
and
takes
them.
\VS{11}Then
his purpose
will
be
changed, over-stepping
the limit;
he
will make
his
strength
his
god.
\VS{12}Are
you
not eternal,
O
Lord
my
God,
my
Holy
One?
for
you
there
is
no
death.
O
Lord,
he
has
been ordered
by
you
for
our punishment;
and
by
you,
O
Rock,
he
has
been marked out
to
put
us
right.
\VS{13}Before
your holy
eyes sin
may
not
be
seen,
and
you
are
unable
to put
up
with
wrong;
why,
then,
are
your
eyes
on
the false?
why
do
you say
nothing
when
the evil-doer puts
an
end
to
one
who
is
more
upright
than
himself?
\VS{14}He
has
made
men
like
the fishes
of
the
sea,
like
the worms which
have
no
ruler
over
them.
\VS{15}He takes
them
all
up
with
his
hook,
he takes
them
in
his net, getting
them
together
in
his fishing-net:
for which cause
he
is
glad
and
full
of
joy.
\VS{16}For
this
reason
he makes
an
offering
to
his net,
burning perfume
to
his fishing-net;
because
by
them
he gets
much
food
and
his meat
is
fat.
\VS{17}For
this cause
his net
is
ever open,
and there
is
no end
to
his destruction
of
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
will
take
my
position
and
be
on
watch, placing myself
on
my tower,
looking
out
to
see
what
he
will
say
to
me,
and
what
answer
he
will
give
to
my protest.
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
gave
me
an
answer,
and
said, Put
the
vision
in
writing
and
make
it clear
on stones,
so
that
the reader
may go
quickly.
\VS{3}For
the
vision
is
still
for
the
fixed
time,
and
it
is moving quickly
to
the
end,
and
it
will
not
be
false:
even
if
it
is slow
in
coming,
go
on
waiting
for
it;
because
it
will
certainly
come,
it
will
not
be kept
back.
\VS{4}As
for
the
man
of pride,
my
soul
has
no pleasure
in
him;
but
the upright
man
will
have
life through
his
good
faith.
\VS{5}A curse
on
the cruel
and false
one!
the
man
full
of pride,
who
never
has
enough;
who
makes
his desires
wide
as
the underworld!
he
is
like
death;
he
is
never
full,
but
he
makes
all
nations come
to
him, getting
all
peoples
together
to
himself.
\VS{6}Will
not
all
these
take
up
a
word
of shame
against
him
and
a bitter
saying
against
him,
and
say,
A curse
on
him
who goes
on taking
what
is
not
his
and
is weighted
down
with
the
property
of debtors!
\VS{7}Will
not
your creditors
suddenly
be moved against
you,
and
your troublers
get
up
from
their sleep,
and
you
will
be
to
them
like goods
taken
in war?
\VS{8}Because
you
have
taken
their goods
from
great
nations,
all
the
rest
of
the
peoples
will
take
your goods
from
you;
because
of men's
blood
and
violent acts
against
the
land
and
the
town
and
all
who
are
living
in
it.
\VS{9}A curse
on
him
who
gets
evil
profits
for
his
family,
so
that
he
may
put
his resting-place
on
high
and
be safe
from
the
hand
of
the wrongdoer!
\VS{10}You
have been
a cause
of
shame
to
your
house
by
cutting
off
a
number
of
peoples,
and
sinning
against
your
soul.
\VS{11}For
the
stone
will
give
a
cry
out
of
the
wall,
and
it
will
be
answered
by
the board
out
of
the woodwork.
\VS{12}A curse
on him
who
is
building
a
place
with
blood,
and basing
a
town
on evil-doing!
\VS{13}See,
is
it
not
the pleasure
of
the
Lord
of
armies
that
the
peoples
are working
for
the
fire
and using themselves
up
for
nothing?
\VS{14}For
the
earth
will
be
full
of
the
knowledge
of
the
glory
of
the
Lord
as
the
sea
is
covered
by
the
waters.
\VS{15}A curse
on
him
who gives
his neighbour
the wine
of
his wrath, making
him overcome
with strong
drink
from
the cup
of
his passion,
so
that
you
may be
a witness
of
their shame!
\VS{16}You
are
full
of
shame
in place
of
glory: take
your
part
in
the
drinking,
and let
your
shame
be uncovered:
the
cup
of
the Lord's
right
hand
will
come
round
to
you
and
your
glory
will
be covered
with
shame.
\VS{17}For
the
violent acts
against
Lebanon
will come
on
you,
and
the
destruction
of
the
cattle
will
be
a cause
of fear
to
you,
because
of men's
blood
and
the
violent acts
against
the
land
and
the
town
and
all
who
are
living
in
it.
\VS{18}What
profit
is
the pictured
image
to
its
maker?
and
as
for
the
metal
image,
the
false
teacher,
why
does
its
maker
put
his faith
in
it,
making
false gods without
a voice?
\VS{19}A curse
on
him
who
says
to
the
wood,
Awake!
to
the unbreathing
stone,
Up! let
it
be
a
teacher!
See,
it
is plated
with
gold
and
silver,
and
there
is
no
breath
at
all
inside
it.
\VS{20}But
the
Lord
is
in
his
holy
Temple: let
all
the
earth
be
quiet
before
him.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A
prayer
of
Habakkuk
the
prophet, put
to
Shigionoth.
\VS{2}O
Lord, word
of
you
has
come
to
my ears;
I
have seen
your
work,
O
Lord;
when
the
years
come
near
make
it clear;
in
wrath
keep
mercy
in
mind.
\VS{3}God
came
from
Teman,
and
the
Holy
One
from
Mount
Paran.
Selah.
The
heavens
were
covered
with
his
glory,
and
the
earth
was
full
of
his
praise.
\VS{4}He
was
shining
like
the
light;
he
had
rays coming
out
from
his
hand:
there
his
power
was kept secret.
\VS{5}Before
him
went disease,
and flames
went
out at
his
feet.
\VS{6}From
his
high
place
he sent shaking
on
the
earth;
he
saw
and
nations
were suddenly moved:
and
the
eternal
mountains
were broken,
the unchanging
hills
were bent
down;
his
ways
are
eternal.
\VS{7}The
curtains
of
Cushan
were
troubled,
and
the
tents
of
Midian
were shaking.
\VS{8}Was
your
wrath burning
against
the
rivers?
were
you
angry
with
the
sea,
that
you went
on
your
horses,
on
your war-carriages
of
salvation?
\VS{9}Your
bow
was quite uncovered.
Selah.
By
you
the
earth
was cut
through
with
rivers.
\VS{10}The
mountains
saw
you
and
were moved
with fear;
the clouds
were streaming
with
water:
the
voice
of
the
deep
was sounding;
the sun did
not come
up,
and
the moon
kept still
in
her
place.
\VS{11}At
the
light
of your
arrows they
went
away,
at
the
shining
of your polished
spear.
\VS{12}You went stepping
through
the
land
in
wrath, crushing
the
nations
in
your passion.
\VS{13}You
went
out
for
the
salvation
of
your
people,
for
the
salvation
of
the
one
on whom
your holy oil
was
put; wounding
the
head
of
the
family
of
the evil-doer, uncovering
the
base
even
to
the
neck.
Selah.
\VS{14}You
have put
your
spears through
his
head,
his horsemen
were sent
in flight
like dry stems;
they
had joy
in driving
away
the
poor,
in making
a meal
of
them secretly.
\VS{15}The feet
of your
horses
were
on
the
sea,
on
the mass
of
great
waters.
\VS{16}Hearing
it,
my inner
parts
were
moved,
and
my
lips
were shaking
at
the
sound;
my
bones became feeble,
and
my steps
were uncertain
under
me:
I
gave
sounds
of grief
in
the
day
of
trouble,
when
his forces
came
up
against
the
people
in bands.
\VS{17}For
though
the fig-tree
has
no flowers,
and
there
is
no
fruit
on
the
vine,
and
work
on
the
olive comes
to
nothing,
and
the
fields
give
no
food;
and
the
flock
is
cut
off
from
its resting-place,
and
there
is
no
herd
in
the cattle-house:
\VS{18}Still,
I
will
be
glad
in
the
Lord,
my joy
will
be
in
the
God
of
my
salvation.
\VS{19}The
Lord
God
is
my
strength,
and
he
makes
my
feet
like roes'
feet, guiding
me
on
my
high
places.
For
the chief music-maker
on corded
instruments.
\par }