HABAKKUK 1: 1 – 17

VERSE 1

Hab:1:1: The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

 

 

VERSE 2

Hab:1:2: O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

 

 

VERSE 3

Hab:1:3: Why 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 4

Hab:1:4: Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

 

 

 

VERSE 5

Hab:1:5: 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 6

Hab:1:6: 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 7

Hab:1:7: They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

 

 

 

VERSE 8

Hab:1:8: 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 9

Hab:1:9: They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

 

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