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Book 35 Habakkuk
35:001:001 The burden which
Habakkuk the prophet did see.
35:001:002 O LORD, how long shall
I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry
out unto thee of
violence, and thou wilt not save!
35:001:003 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.
35:001:004 Therefore the law is
slacked, and judgment doth never go
forth: for the wicked
doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth.
35:001:005 Behold ye among the
heathen, and regard, and wonder
marvelously: for I will
work a work in your days which ye will
not believe, though it
be told you.
35:001:006 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 their's.
35:001:007 They are terrible and
dreadful: their judgment and their
dignity shall proceed
of themselves.
35:001:008 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.
35:001:009 They shall come all for
violence: their faces shall sup up as
the east wind, and they
shall gather the captivity as the
sand.
35:001:010 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.
35:001:011 Then shall his mind
change, and he shall pass over, and
offend, imputing this
his power unto his god.
35:001:012 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.
35:001:013 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?
35:001:014 And makest men as the
fishes of the sea, as the creeping
things, that have no
ruler over them?
35:001:015 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.
35:001:016 Therefore they
sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto
their drag; because by
them their portion is fat, and their
meat plenteous.
35:001:017 Shall they therefore
empty their net, and not spare
continually to slay the
nations?
35:002:001 I will stand upon my
watch, and set me upon the tower, and
will watch to see what
he will say unto me, and what I shall
answer when I am
reproved.
35:002:002 And the LORD answered
me, and said, Write the vision, and make
it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it.
35:002:003 For the vision is yet
for an appointed time, but at the end it
shall speak, and not
lie: though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely
come, it will not tarry.
35:002:004 Behold, his soul which
is lifted up is not upright in him: but
the just shall live by
his faith.
35:002:005 Yea also, because he
transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man,
neither keepeth at
home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and
is as death, and cannot
be satisfied, but gathereth unto him
all nations, and
heapeth unto him all people:
35:002:006 Shall not all these
take up a parable against him, and a
taunting proverb
against him, and say, Woe to him that
increaseth that which
is not his! how long? and to him that
ladeth himself with
thick clay!
35:002:007 Shall they not rise up
suddenly that shall bite thee, and
awake that shall vex
thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto
them?
35:002:008 Because thou hast
spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the
people shall spoil
thee; because of men's blood, and for the
violence of the land,
of the city, and of all that dwell
therein.
35:002:009 Woe to him that
coveteth an evil covetousness to his house,
that he may set his
nest on high, that he may be delivered
from the power of evil!
35:002:010 Thou hast consulted
shame to thy house by cutting off many
people, and hast sinned
against thy soul.
35:002:011 For the stone shall cry
out of the wall, and the beam out of
the timber shall answer
it.
35:002:012 Woe to him that
buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a
city by iniquity!
35:002:013 Behold, is it not of
the LORD of hosts that the people shall
labour in the very
fire, and the people shall weary themselves
for very vanity?
35:002:014 For the earth shall be
filled with the knowledge of the glory
of the LORD, as the
waters cover the sea.
35:002:015 Woe unto him that
giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy
bottle to him, and
makest him drunken also, that thou mayest
look on their
nakedness!
35:002:016 Thou art filled with
shame for glory: drink thou also, and let
thy foreskin be
uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand
shall be turned unto
thee, and shameful spewing shall be on
thy glory.
35:002:017 For the violence of
Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of
beasts, which made them
afraid, because of men's blood, and
for the violence of the
land, of the city, and of all that
dwell therein.
35:002:018 What profiteth the
graven image that the maker thereof hath
graven it; the molten
image, and a teacher of lies, that the
maker of his work
trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
35:002:019 Woe unto him that saith
to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone,
Arise, it shall teach!
Behold, it is laid over with gold and
silver, and there is no
breath at all in the midst of it.
35:002:020 But the LORD is in his
holy temple: let all the earth keep
silence before him.
35:003:001 A prayer of Habakkuk
the prophet upon Shigionoth.
35:003:002 O LORD, I have heard
thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD,
revive thy work in the
midst of the years, in the midst of the
years make known; in
wrath remember mercy.
35:003:003 God came from Teman,
and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.
His glory covered the
heavens, and the earth was full of his
praise.
35:003:004 And his brightness was
as the light; he had horns coming out
of his hand: and there
was the hiding of his power.
35:003:005 Before him went the
pestilence, and burning coals went forth
at his feet.
35:003:006 He stood, and measured
the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder
the nations; and the
everlasting mountains were scattered, the
perpetual hills did
bow: his ways are everlasting.
35:003:007 I saw the tents of
Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of
the land of Midian did
tremble.
35:003:008 Was the LORD displeased
against the rivers? was thine anger
against the rivers? was
thy wrath against the sea, that thou
didst ride upon thine
horses and thy chariots of salvation?
35:003:009 Thy bow was made quite
naked, according to the oaths of the
tribes, even thy word.
Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with
rivers.
35:003:010 The mountains saw thee,
and they trembled: the overflowing of
the water passed by:
the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up
his hands on high.
35:003:011 The sun and moon stood
still in their habitation: at the light
of thine arrows they
went, and at the shining of thy
glittering spear.
35:003:012 Thou didst march
through the land in indignation, thou didst
thresh the heathen in
anger.
35:003:013 Thou wentest forth for
the salvation of thy people, even for
salvation with thine
anointed; thou woundedst the head out of
the house of the
wicked, by discovering the foundation unto
the neck. Selah.
35:003:014 Thou didst strike
through with his staves the head of his
villages: they came out
as a whirlwind to scatter me: their
rejoicing was as to
devour the poor secretly.
35:003:015 Thou didst walk through
the sea with thine horses, through the
heap of great waters.
35:003:016 When I heard, my belly
trembled; my lips quivered at the
voice: rottenness
entered into my bones, and I trembled in
myself, that I might
rest in the day of trouble: when he
cometh up unto the
people, he will invade them with his
troops.
35:003:017 Although the fig tree
shall not blossom, neither shall fruit
be in the vines; the
labour of the olive shall fail, and the
fields shall yield no
meat; the flock shall be cut off from
the fold, and there
shall be no herd in the stalls:
35:003:018 Yet I will rejoice in
the LORD, I will joy in the God of my
salvation.
35:003:019 The LORD God is my
strength, and he will make my feet like
hinds' feet, and he
will make me to walk upon mine high
places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
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