Book 35 : HABAKKUK - Chapter 001
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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
Book 35 : HABAKKUK - Chapter 001
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