Habakkuk 1
About Habakkuk Habakkuk questions why God allows injustice and learns to trust and rejoice in God whatever comes.
1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.SelectedHabakkuk 1:1Ask
2O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!SelectedHabakkuk 1:2Ask
3Why 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.SelectedHabakkuk 1:3Ask
4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.SelectedHabakkuk 1:4Ask
5Behold 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.SelectedHabakkuk 1:5Ask
6For, 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.SelectedHabakkuk 1:6Ask
7They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.SelectedHabakkuk 1:7Ask
8Their 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.SelectedHabakkuk 1:8Ask
9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.SelectedHabakkuk 1:9Ask
10And 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.SelectedHabakkuk 1:10Ask
11Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.SelectedHabakkuk 1:11Ask
12Art 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.SelectedHabakkuk 1:12Ask
13Thou 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?SelectedHabakkuk 1:13Ask
14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?SelectedHabakkuk 1:14Ask
15They 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.SelectedHabakkuk 1:15Ask
16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.SelectedHabakkuk 1:16Ask
17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?SelectedHabakkuk 1:17Ask
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