Habakkuk:1

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* The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw . * O LORD , how long shall I cry , and thou will not hear ? I cry out to thee of violence , and thou will not save . * Why do thou show me iniquity , and look upon perverseness ? For destruction and violence are before me , and there is strife , and contention rises up . * Therefore the law is slacked , and justice never goes forth . For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man , therefore justice goes forth perverted . * Behold ye , and look , and wonder marvelously . For I am working a work in your days , which ye will not believe though it be told you . * For , lo , I raise up the Chaldeans , that bitter and hasty nation , who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs . * They are fearful and dreadful . Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves . * Their horses also are swifter than leopards , and are more fierce than the evening wolves . And their horsemen press proudly on . Yea , their horsemen come from far . They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour . * They come all of them for violence . The set of their faces is forwards , and they gather captives as the sand . * Yea , he scoffs at kings , and rulers are a derision to him . He derides every stronghold , for he heaps up dust , and takes it . * Then he shall sweep by [as ] a wind , and shall pass over , and be guilty ; he whose might is his god . * Are not thou from everlasting , O LORD my God , my Holy One ? We shall not die . O LORD , thou have ordained him for judgment , and thou , O Rock , have established him for correction . * Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil , and who cannot look on perverseness , why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously , and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he , * and makes men as the fishes of the sea , as the creeping things , that have no ruler over them ? * He takes all of them up with the hook . He catches them in his net , and gathers them in his drag . Therefore he rejoices and is glad . * Therefore he sacrifices to his net , and burns incense to his drag , because by them his portion is fat , and his food plentiful . * Shall he therefore empty his net , and not spare to kill the nations continually ?

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