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Habakkuk
Habakkuk, Chapter 1
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The burden which Habakkuk 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 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.
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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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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.
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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 their's.
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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 strong hold; 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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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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