11 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see .
12 O LORD how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear even cry
out unto thee of violence and thou wilt not save .
13 Why dost thou show me iniquity and cause me to behold
grievance for spoiling and violence are before me and there are
that raise up strife and contention .
14 Therefore the law is slacked and judgment doth never go
forth for the wicked doth compass about the righteous therefore
wrong judgment proceedeth .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 They are terrible and dreadful their judgment and their
dignity shall proceed of themselves .
18 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 .
19 They shall come all for violence their faces shall sup up
as the east wind and they shall gather the captivity as the sand
.
110 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 .
111 Then shall his mind change and he shall pass over and
offend imputing this his power unto his god .
112 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 .
113 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 .
114 And makest men as the fishes of the sea as the creeping
things that have no ruler over them .
115 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 .
116 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net and burn incense
unto their drag because by them their portion is fat and their
meat plenteous .
117 Shall they therefore empty their net and not spare
continually to slay the nations .
* 21 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 .
22 And the LORD answered me and said Write the vision and make
it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it .
23 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 .
24 Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him
but the just shall live by his faith .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and
awake that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties unto
them .
28 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 .
29 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 .
210 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many
people and hast sinned against thy soul .
211 For the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beam out
of the timber shall answer it .
212 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood and stablisheth
a city by iniquity .
213 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 .
214 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea .
215 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 .
216 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 .
217 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 .
218 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 .
219 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 .
220 But the LORD is in his holy temple let all the earth keep
silence before him .
* 31 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth .
32 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 .
33 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 .
34 And his brightness was as the light he had horns coming out
of his hand and there was the hiding of his power .
35 Before him went the pestilence and burning coals went forth
at his feet .
36 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 .
37 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction and the curtains of
the land of Midian did tremble .
38 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 .
39 Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oaths of the
tribes even thy word Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with
rivers .
310 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 .
311 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 .
312 Thou didst march through the land in indignation thou
didst thresh the heathen in anger .
313 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 .
314 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 .
315 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through
the heap of great waters .
316 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 .
317 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 .
318 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD I will joy in the God of my
salvation .
319 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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