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The Book of Habakkuk
Chapter 1
Hab 1:1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Hab 1:2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and You will not hear? I cry out to You “violence!” And will You not save?
Hab 1:3 Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold troubles? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Hab 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes out; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore, justice goes out distorted.
Hab 1:5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told to you.
Hab 1:6 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the land, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
Hab 1:7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Hab 1:8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards and and fiercer than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
Hab 1:9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
Hab 1:10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
Hab 1:11 He then sweeps by like the wind and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”
Hab 1:12 Are You not from infinity, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, You have appointed them to judge us. You, O mighty Rock, have ordered them to correct us.
Hab 1:13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on the trouble caused by sin, why do You tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the righteous
Hab 1:14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Hab 1:15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and collects them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and is glad.
Hab 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
Hab 1:17 Will he therefore empty his net, and continually murder the nations without mercy?
Chapter 2
Hab 2:1 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
Hab 2:2 Yahweh answered me, “write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
Hab 2:3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and will not prove false. If He should linger, expect Him, because He will surely come. He will not delay.
Hab 2:4 Behold, the soul that is puffed up. It is not right within him, but the righteous will live by My faith.
Hab 2:5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who does not rest, who magnifies his soul as Sheol, and he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, but collects to himself all nations, and assembles to himself all peoples.
Hab 2:6 Will not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘woe to him who multiplies that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
Hab 2:7 Will not your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Hab 2:8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
Hab 2:9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
Hab 2:10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Hab 2:11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Hab 2:12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Hab 2:13 Behold, is it not of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor to stoke the fire, and the nations tire themselves out for emptiness?
Hab 2:14 For the land will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
Hab 2:15 “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drinks, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
Hab 2:16 You are filled with humiliation, instead of honor. You will also drink, and expose your uncircumcision! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your honor.
Hab 2:17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of man’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
Hab 2:18 “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Hab 2:19 Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘arise!’ Will this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.
Hab 2:20 But Yahweh is in His holy temple. Let all the land hush before Him!”
Chapter 3
Hab 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
Hab 3:2 Yahweh, I have heard of Your fame. I stand in awe of Your deeds, Yahweh. Revitalize Your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, You remember mercy.
Hab 3:3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the land.
Hab 3:4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from His hand, where His power is hidden.
Hab 3:5 Plagues went before Him, and pestilence followed His feet.
Hab 3:6 He stood and surveyed the land. He looked and made the nations tremble. The perpetual mountains were crumbled. The perennial hills collapsed. His ways are infinite.
Hab 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
Hab 3:8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or Your wrath against the sea, that You rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
Hab 3:9 You uncovered Your bow. You called for Your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the land with rivers.
Hab 3:10 The mountains saw You and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
Hab 3:11 The sun and moon took their stand in their habitation, at the light of Your arrows as they went at the shining of Your glittering spear.
Hab 3:12 You marched through the land with intense anger. You trampled the nations in fury.
Hab 3:13 You went out for the salvation of Your people, for the salvation of Your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
Hab 3:14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter us, gloating as if to devour the afflicted in the hiding place.
Hab 3:15 You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning mighty waters.
Hab 3:16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters 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 who invade us.
Hab 3:17 For though the fig tree does not flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
Hab 3:18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Hab 3:19 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He arranges my feet like the feet of a deer, and mount me to conquer in His song.
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