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{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Habakkuk

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The revelation
which
Habakkuk
the
prophet
saw.
\VS{2}LORD,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:2 }
When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.}
how
long
will
I
cry,
and
you
will
not
hear?
I
cry
out
to
you “Violence!”
and
will
you
not
save?
\VS{3}Why
do
you
show
me
iniquity,
and
look
at perversity?
For
destruction
and
violence
are
before
me.
There
is
strife,
and
contention rises
up.
\VS{4}Therefore
the
law
is paralysed,
and
justice
never prevails;
for
the
wicked
surround
the
righteous;
therefore
justice
comes
out
perverted.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“Look amongst
the
nations,
watch,
and
wonder marvellously;
for
I am
working
a
work
in
your
days
which
you
will
not
believe
though
it
is
told
you.
\VS{6}For,
behold,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:6 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
I
am
raising
up
the
Chaldeans,
that
bitter
and
hasty
nation
who
march
through
the width
of
the
earth,
to
possess
dwelling
places
that
are
not theirs.
\VS{7}They
are
feared
and
dreaded.
Their judgement
and
their
dignity
proceed
from themselves.
\VS{8}Their
horses
also
are
swifter than
leopards,
and
are more fierce than
the
evening
wolves.
Their
horsemen
press proudly
on. Yes,
their
horsemen
come
from
afar.
They
fly
as
an
eagle
that hurries
to
devour.
\VS{9}All
of
them
come
for
violence.
Their hordes
face
forward.
They
gather
prisoners
like
sand.
\VS{10}Yes,
they scoff
at
kings,
and princes
are
a derision
to
them.
They
laugh
at
every stronghold,
for
they build
up an earthen ramp
and
take
it.
\VS{11}Then
they
sweep
by
like
the
wind
and
go
on.
They
are indeed
guilty,
whose
strength
is
their
god.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Aren’t
you
from everlasting,
LORD
my
God,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:12 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
my
Holy
One?
We
will
not
die.
LORD,
you
have
appointed
them
for judgement.
You,
Rock,
have
established
him
to
punish.
\VS{13}You
who
have purer
eyes
than
to
see
evil,
and
who
cannot
look
on perversity,
why
do
you
tolerate
those
who
deal
treacherously
and
keep
silent
when
the
wicked
swallows
up
the
man
who
is
more
righteous
than
he,
\VS{14}and
make
men
like
the
fish
of
the
sea,
like
the
creeping
things
that
have
no
ruler
over
them?
\VS{15}He takes
up
all
of
them
with
the
hook.
He catches
them
in
his net
and
gathers
them
in
his dragnet.
Therefore
he
rejoices
and
is
glad.
\VS{16}Therefore
he
sacrifices
to
his net
and
burns
incense
to
his dragnet,
because
by
them
his life
is luxurious
and
his
food
is good.
\VS{17}Will
he
therefore
continually empty
his net,
and
kill
the
nations
without
mercy?

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
will
stand
at
my
watch
and
set myself
on
the ramparts,
and
will
look
out
to
see
what
he
will
say
to
me,
and
what
I
will
answer
concerning
my complaint.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}The
LORD
answered
me, “Write
the
vision,
and
make
it plain
on
tablets,
that
he
who
runs
may
read
it.
\VS{3}For
the
vision
is
yet
for
the
appointed
time,
and
it hurries towards
the
end,
and
won’t
prove
false.
Though
it
takes
time,
wait
for
it,
because
it
will
surely
come.
It
won’t
delay.
\VS{4}Behold,
his
soul
is puffed
up.
It
is
not upright
in
him,
but
the
righteous
will
live
by
his
faith.
\VS{5}Yes,
moreover,
wine
is
treacherous:
an arrogant
man
who
doesn’t stay
at home,
who
enlarges
his
desire
as
Sheol;\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:5 }
Sheol is the place of the dead.
}
he
is
like
death
and
can’t
be
satisfied,
but
gathers
to
himself
all
nations
and heaps
to
himself
all
peoples.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Won’t
all
these
take
up
a
parable
against
him,
and
a taunting
proverb
against
him,
and
say, ‘Woe
to
him
who
increases
that
which
is
not
his,
and
who enriches
himself
by extortion!
How
long?’
\VS{7}Won’t
your debtors
rise
up
suddenly,
and
wake
up
those
who
make
you
tremble,
and
you
will
be
their victim?
\VS{8}Because
you
have
plundered
many
nations,
all
the remnant
of
the
peoples
will plunder
you
because
of
men’s
blood,
and
for
the
violence
done
to
the
land,
to
the
city
and
to
all
who
dwell
in
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Woe
to
him
who
gets
an
evil
gain
for
his
house,
that
he
may
set
his
nest
on
high,
that
he
may
be
delivered
from
the
hand
of
evil!
\VS{10}You
have
devised
shame
to
your
house
by
cutting
off
many
peoples,
and
have
sinned
against
your
soul.
\VS{11}For
the
stone
will
cry
out
of
the
wall,
and
the beam
out
of
the woodwork
will
answer
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Woe
to him
who
builds
a
town
with
blood,
and
establishes
a
city
by
iniquity!
\VS{13}Behold,
isn’t
it
from
the
LORD
of
Armies
that
the
peoples labour
for
the
fire,
and
the
nations
weary themselves
for vanity?
\VS{14}For
the
earth
will
be
filled
with
the
knowledge
of
the
LORD’s
glory,
as
the
waters
cover
the
sea.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“Woe
to
him
who gives
his neighbour
drink, pouring
your inflaming wine
until
they
are
drunk,
so
that
you
may
gaze
at
their naked bodies!
\VS{16}You
are
filled
with
shame,
and
not
glory.
You
will
also
drink
and
be exposed!
The
cup
of
the
LORD’s
right
hand
will
come
around
to
you,
and
disgrace
will cover
your
glory.
\VS{17}For
the
violence
done
to
Lebanon
will
overwhelm
you,
and
the
destruction
of
the
animals
will terrify
you,
because
of
men’s
blood
and
for
the
violence
done
to
the
land,
to
every
city
and
to
those
who
dwell
in
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“What
value
does
the engraved
image
have,
that
its
maker
has engraved
it;
the molten
image,
even
the
teacher
of
lies,
that
he
who
fashions
its form
trusts
in
it,
to
make
mute
idols?
\VS{19}Woe
to
him
who
says
to
the
wood, ‘Awake!’
or
to
the
mute
stone, ‘Arise!’
Shall
this
teach?
Behold,
it
is
overlaid
with
gold
and
silver,
and
there
is
no
breath
at
all
within
it.
\VS{20}But
the
LORD
is
in
his
holy
temple. Let
all
the
earth
be
silent
before
him!”

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A
prayer
of
Habakkuk,
the
prophet, set
to victorious music.
\par }{\Q \VS{2}LORD,
I
have
heard
of
your
fame.
\par }{\QB I stand
in awe
of
your
deeds,
LORD.
\par }{\Q Renew
your
work
in
the
middle
of
the
years.
\par }{\QB In
the
middle
of
the
years
make
it
known.
\par }{\QB In
wrath,
you
remember
mercy.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}God
came
from
Teman,
\par }{\QB the
Holy
One
from
Mount
Paran.
\par }{\QS 
Selah.\par }
{\BB \par }{\Q His
glory
covered
the
heavens,
\par }{\QB and
his
praise
filled
the
earth.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}His splendour
is
like
the sunrise.
\par }{\QB Rays
shine
from
his
hand,
where
his
power
is hidden.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Plague
went
before
him,
\par }{\QB and
pestilence
followed
his
feet.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}He
stood,
and shook
the
earth.
\par }{\QB He
looked,
and made
the
nations tremble.
\par }{\QB The
ancient
mountains
were crumbled.
\par }{\QB The age-old
hills
collapsed.
\par }{\QB His
ways
are
eternal.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}I
saw
the
tents
of
Cushan
in
affliction.
\par }{\QB The dwellings
of
the
land
of
Midian
trembled.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Was
the
LORD displeased
with
the
rivers?
\par }{\QB Was
your
anger
against
the
rivers,
\par }{\QB or
your
wrath
against
the
sea,
\par }{\QB that
you
rode
on
your
horses,
\par }{\QB on
your
chariots
of
salvation?
\par }{\Q \VS{9}You uncovered
your
bow.
\par }{\QB You called
for
your
sworn
arrows.
\par }{\QS 
Selah.\par }
{\Q You
split
the
earth
with
rivers.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}The
mountains
saw
you,
and
were afraid.
\par }{\QB The
storm
of
waters
passed
by.
\par }{\QB The
deep roared
and
lifted
up
its
hands
on
high.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}The
sun
and
moon
stood
still
in
the sky
\par }{\QB at
the
light
of your
arrows
as they
went,
\par }{\QB at
the
shining
of your
glittering
spear.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}You
marched
through
the
land
in
wrath.
\par }{\QB You
threshed
the
nations
in
anger.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}You
went
out
for
the
salvation
of
your
people,
\par }{\QB for
the
salvation
of
your
anointed.
\par }{\Q You crushed
the
head
of
the land
of wickedness.
\par }{\QB You stripped
them
head
to foot.
\par }{\QS 
Selah.\par }
{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{14}You pierced
the
heads
of
his warriors
with
their own
spears.
\par }{\QB They came
as
a whirlwind
to
scatter
me,
\par }{\QB gloating
as
if
to
devour
the
wretched
in
secret.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}You
trampled
the
sea
with your
horses,
\par }{\QB churning mighty
waters.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}I
heard,
and
my
body
trembled.
\par }{\QB My
lips
quivered
at
the
voice.
\par }{\Q Rottenness
enters
into
my
bones,
and
I
tremble
in
my
place
\par }{\QB because
I must
wait
quietly
for
the
day
of
trouble,
\par }{\QB for
the
coming
up
of
the
people
who
invade
us.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}For
even
though
the
fig
tree
doesn’t flourish,
\par }{\QB nor
fruit
be
in
the
vines,
\par }{\QB the labour
of
the
olive
fails,
\par }{\QB the
fields
yield
no
food,
\par }{\QB the
flocks
are
cut
off
from
the
fold,
\par }{\QB and
there
is
no
herd
in
the
stalls,
\par }{\Q \VS{18}yet
I
will
rejoice
in
the
LORD.
\par }{\QB I
will
be joyful
in
the
God
of
my
salvation!
\par }{\Q \VS{19}GOD,
the
Lord,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:19 }
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”}
is
my
strength.
\par }{\QB He
makes
my
feet
like deer’s
feet,
\par }{\QB and enables
me
to go
in
high
places.
\par }{\PP For
the
music
director,
on
my
stringed
instruments.
\par }