
Habakkuk

   {1:1} The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. {1:2} O
Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto
thee of violence, and thou wilt not save. {1:3} Why dost thou show me
iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are
before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up. {1:4}
Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the
wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth
perverted. {1:5} Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder
marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not
believe though it be told you. {1:6} For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the
earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. {1:7} They are
terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from
themselves. {1:8} Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are
more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly
on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that
hasteth to devour. {1:9} They come all of them for violence; the set of
their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand. {1:10}
Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he
derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
{1:11} Then shall he sweep by [as] a wind, and shall pass over, and be
guilty, [even] he whose might is his god. {1:12} Art not thou from
everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O
Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast
established him for correction. {1:13} Thou that art of purer eyes than
to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore
lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace
when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;
{1:14} and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things,
that have no ruler over them? {1:15} He taketh up all of them with the
angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag:
therefore he rejoiceth and is glad. {1:16} Therefore he sacrificeth
unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his
portion is fat, and his food plenteous. {1:17} Shall he therefore empty
his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?



   {2:1} I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and
will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall
answer concerning my complaint. {2:2} And Jehovah answered me, and
said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run
that readeth it. {2:3} For the vision is yet for the appointed time,
and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait
for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay. {2:4} Behold,
his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous
shall live by his faith. {2:5} Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a
haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as
Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto
him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples. {2:6} 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 that ladeth himself with pledges! {2:7} Shall they not rise
up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and
thou shalt be for booty unto them? {2:8} Because thou hast plundered
many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee,
because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the
city and to all that dwell therein. {2:9} Woe to him that getteth an
evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may
be delivered from the hand of evil! {2:10} Thou hast devised shame to
thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy
soul. {2:11} For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out
of the timber shall answer it. {2:12} Woe to him that buildeth a town
with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! {2:13} Behold, is it
not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the
nations weary themselves for vanity? {2:14} For the earth shall be
filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover
the sea. {2:15} Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, [to thee]
that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest
look on their nakedness! {2:16} Thou art filled with shame, and not
glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of
Jehovah's right hand shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall
be upon thy glory. {2:17} For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover
thee, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid;
because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the
city and to all that dwell therein. {2:18} What profiteth the graven
image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even
the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein,
to make dumb idols? {2:19} Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake;
to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with
gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
{2:20} But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep
silence before him.



   {3:1} A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth.
{3:2} O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid:
O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years;
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.
{3:3} 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.
{3:4} And [his] brightness was as the light;
He had rays [coming forth] from his hand;
And there was the hiding of his power.
{3:5} Before him went the pestilence,
And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.
{3:6} He stood, and measured the earth;
He beheld, and drove asunder the nations;
And the eternal mountains were scattered;
The everlasting hills did bow;
His goings were [as] of old.
{3:7} I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
{3:8} Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers?
Was thine anger against the rivers,
Or thy wrath against the sea,
That thou didst ride upon thy horses,
Upon thy chariots of salvation?
{3:9} Thy bow was made quite bare;
The oaths to the tribes were a [sure] word.

   Selah.
Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
{3:10} The mountains saw thee, and were afraid;
The tempest of waters passed by;
The deep uttered its voice,
And lifted up its hands on high.
{3:11} The sun and moon stood still in their habitation,
At the light of thine arrows as they went,
At the shining of thy glittering spear.
{3:12} Thou didst march though the land in indignation;
Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
{3:13} Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,
For the salvation of thine anointed;
Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked man,
Laying bare the foundation even unto the neck.

   Selah.
{3:14} Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors:
They came as a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
{3:15} Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses,
The heap of mighty waters.

{3:16} I heard, and my body trembled,
My lips quivered at the voice;
Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place;
Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble,
For the coming up of the people that invadeth us.
{3:17} For though the fig-tree shall not flourish,
Neither shall fruit be in the vines;
The labor of the olive shall fail,
And the fields shall yield no food;
The flock shall be cut off from the fold,
And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
{3:18} Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
{3:19} Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength;
And he maketh my feet like hinds' [feet],
And will make me to walk upon my high places.




