| Hab. 1:1 |
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. |
| Hab. 1:2 |
How long, O Jehovah, shall I cry / And You do not hear? / I cry out to You, Violence! / And You do not save. |
| Hab. 1:3 |
Why do You cause me to see iniquity / And look upon wrong? / Indeed destruction and violence are before me; / And there is strife, and contention arises. |
| Hab. 1:4 |
Therefore the law is ineffective, / And justice never goes forth; / For the wicked encompasses the righteous, / Therefore justice goes forth perverted. |
| Hab. 1:5 |
Look among the nations, and see, / And be amazed, utterly amazed. / For I am doing a work in your days / [Which] you would not believe if it were told [you.] |
| Hab. 1:6 |
For I am about to raise up the Chaldeans, / That bitter and hasty nation / That marches through the breadth of the earth / To possess habitations that are not theirs. |
| Hab. 1:7 |
They are terrible and dreadful; / Their judgment and their authority issue from themselves. |
| Hab. 1:8 |
And their horses are swifter than leopards / And more agile than the wolves of evening. / And their horsemen prance about; / Indeed their horsemen come from afar; / They fly like an eagle that hastens to devour. |
| Hab. 1:9 |
All of them come to do violence; / The set of their faces is forward, / And they gather captives like sand. |
| Hab. 1:10 |
Indeed they scoff at kings, / And potentates are a derision to them; / They deride every fortress, / For they heap up dirt and take it. |
| Hab. 1:11 |
Then they will sweep through [like] the wind and pass over / And thus become guilty; this--their strength--is their god. |
| Hab. 1:12 |
Are You not from everlasting, O Jehovah, / My God, my Holy One? We will not die. / O Jehovah, You have appointed them for judgment; / And You, O Rock, have established them for correction. |
| Hab. 1:13 |
You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil / And who cannot look upon wrong, / Why do You look upon them who deal treacherously / [And] keep silent when the wicked man swallows up him who is more / righteous than he? |
| Hab. 1:14 |
And You make man like the fish of the sea, / Like the creeping things, who have no one to rule for them. |
| Hab. 1:15 |
They take all of them up with a hook; / They drag them off in their net / And gather them into their seine; / So they rejoice and exult. |
| Hab. 1:16 |
Therefore they offer sacrifices to their net / And burn incense to their seine, / For by them their portion is fat / And their food is plenteous. |
| Hab. 1:17 |
Will they then empty their net / And continually slay the nations without sparing? |