61 lines
2.2 KiB
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61 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 1
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1 The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.
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2 O Lord, how long shall I cry,
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And You will not hear?
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Even cry out to You, “Violence!”
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And You will not save.
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3 Why do You show me iniquity,
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And cause me to see trouble?
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For plundering and violence are before me;
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There is strife, and contention arises.
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4 Therefore the law is powerless,
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And justice never goes forth.
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For the wicked surround the righteous;
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Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
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5 “Look among the nations and watch—
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Be utterly astounded!
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For I will work a work in your days
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Which you would not believe, though it were told you.
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6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans,
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A bitter and hasty nation
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Which marches through the breadth of the earth,
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To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
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7 They are terrible and dreadful;
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Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
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8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards,
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And more fierce than evening wolves.
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Their chargers charge ahead;
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Their cavalry comes from afar;
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They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
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9 “They all come for violence;
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Their faces are set like the east wind.
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They gather captives like sand.
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10 They scoff at kings,
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And princes are scorned by them.
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They deride every stronghold,
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For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.
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11 Then his mind changes, and he transgresses;
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He commits offense,
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Ascribing this power to his god.”
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12 Are You not from everlasting,
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O Lord my God, my Holy One?
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We shall not die.
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O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment;
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O Rock, You have marked them for correction.
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13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
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And cannot look on wickedness.
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Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
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And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
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A person more righteous than he?
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14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea,
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Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?
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15 They take up all of them with a hook,
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They catch them in their net,
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And gather them in their dragnet.
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Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
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16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net,
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And burn incense to their dragnet;
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Because by them their share is sumptuous
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And their food plentiful.
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17 Shall they therefore empty their net,
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And continue to slay nations without pity? |