60 lines
2.2 KiB
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60 lines
2.2 KiB
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# Chapter 1
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1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,
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and you will not hear?
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Or cry to you “Violence!”
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and you will not save?
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3 Why do you make me see iniquity,
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and why do you idly look at wrong?
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Destruction and violence are before me;
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strife and contention arise.
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4 So the law is paralyzed,
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and justice never goes forth.
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For the wicked surround the righteous;
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so justice goes forth perverted.
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5 “Look among the nations, and see;
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wonder and be astounded.
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For I am doing a work in your days
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that you would not believe if told.
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6 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
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that bitter and hasty nation,
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who march through the breadth of the earth,
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to seize dwellings not their own.
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7 They are dreaded and fearsome;
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their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
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8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
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more fierce than the evening wolves;
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their horsemen press proudly on.
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Their horsemen come from afar;
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they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
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9 They all come for violence,
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all their faces forward.
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They gather captives like sand.
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10 At kings they scoff,
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and at rulers they laugh.
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They laugh at every fortress,
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for they pile up earth and take it.
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11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
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guilty men, whose own might is their 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 ordained them as a judgment,
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and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
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13 You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
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and cannot look at wrong,
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why do you idly look at traitors
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and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
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the man more righteous than he?
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14 You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
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like crawling things that have no ruler.
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15 He brings all of them up with a hook;
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he drags them out with his net;
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he gathers them in his dragnet;
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so he rejoices and is glad.
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16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
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and makes offerings to his dragnet;
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for by them he lives in luxury,
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and his food is rich.
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17 Is he then to keep on emptying his net
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and mercilessly killing nations forever? |