| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. | | Habakkuk | | 1 |
Habakkuk Complains of Injustice |
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The burden which Habak'kuk the prophet did see.
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¶ O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
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The Chaldeans Will Punish Judah |
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¶ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. Acts 13.41
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For, lo, I raise up the Chalde'ans, 2 Kgs. 24.2 that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
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They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
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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.
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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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And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every stronghold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
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Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
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Habakkuk Remonstrates with the LORD |
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¶ Art 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.
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Thou 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?
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and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
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They 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.
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Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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