Habakkuk:2-4
Seeker Overlay ON
*
I will take my stand to watch ,
and station myself on the tower ,
and look forth to see what he will say to me ,
and what I will answer concerning my complaint .
*
And the LORD answered me : "
Write the vision ;
make it plain upon tablets ,
so he may run who reads it .
*
For still the vision awaits its time ;
it hastens to the end--it will not lie .
If it seem slow ,
wait for it ;
it will surely come ,
it will not delay .
*
Behold ,
he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail ,
but the righteous shall live by his faith .
*
Moreover ,
wine is treacherous ;
the arrogant man shall not abide .
His greed is as wide as Sheol ;
like death he has never enough .
He gathers for himself all nations ,
and collects as his own all peoples ."
*
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him ,
in scoffing derision of him ,
and say , "
Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own--for how long ?--
and loads himself with pledges !"
*
Will not your debtors suddenly arise ,
and those awake who will make you tremble ?
Then you will be booty for them .
*
Because you have plundered many nations ,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you ,
for the blood of men and violence to the earth ,
to cities and all who dwell therein .
*
Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house ,
to set his nest on high ,
to be safe from the reach of harm !
*
You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples ;
you have forfeited your life .
*
For the stone will cry out from the wall ,
and the beam from the woodwork respond .
*
Woe to him who builds a town with blood ,
and founds a city on iniquity !
*
Behold ,
is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor only for fire ,
and nations weary themselves for nought ?
*
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD ,
as the waters cover the sea .
*
Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath ,
and makes them drunk ,
to gaze on their shame !
*
You will be sated with contempt instead of glory .
Drink ,
yourself ,
and stagger !
The cup in the LORD '
s right hand will come around to you ,
and shame will come upon your glory !
*
The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you ;
the destruction of the beasts will terrify you ,
for the blood of men and violence to the earth ,
to cities and all who dwell therein .
*
What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it ,
a metal image ,
a teacher of lies ?
For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols !
*
Woe to him who says to a wooden thing ,
Awake ;
to a dumb stone ,
Arise !
Can this give revelation ?
Behold ,
it is overlaid with gold and silver ,
and there is no breath at all in it .
*
But the LORD is in his holy temple ;
let all the earth keep silence before him .
*
A prayer of Habak '
kuk the prophet ,
according to Shigion '
oth .
*
O LORD ,
I have heard the report of thee ,
and thy work ,
O LORD ,
do I fear .
In the midst of the years renew it ;
in the midst of the years make it known ;
in wrath remember mercy .
*
God came from Teman ,
and the Holy One from Mount Paran .
His glory covered the heavens ,
and the earth was full of his praise .
Selah
*
His brightness was like the light ,
rays flashed from his hand ;
and there he veiled his power .
*
Before him went pestilence ,
and plague followed close behind .
*
He stood and measured the earth ;
he looked and shook the nations ;
then the eternal mountains were scattered ,
the everlasting hills sank low .
His ways were as of old .
*
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction ;
the curtains of the land of Mid '
ian did tremble .
*
Was thy wrath against the rivers ,
O LORD ?
Was thy anger against the rivers ,
or thy indignation against the sea ,
when thou didst ride upon thy horses ,
upon thy chariot of victory ?
*
Thou didst strip the sheath from thy bow ,
and put the arrows to the string .
Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers .
*
The mountains saw thee ,
and writhed ;
the raging waters swept on ;
the deep gave forth its voice ,
it lifted its hands on high .
*
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped ,
at the flash of thy glittering spear .
*
Thou didst bestride the earth in fury ,
thou didst trample the nations in anger .
*
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people ,
for the salvation of thy anointed .
Thou didst crush the head of the wicked ,
laying him bare from thigh to neck .
Selah
*
Thou didst pierce with thy shafts the head of his warriors ,
who came like a whirlwind to scatter me ,
rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret .
*
Thou didst trample the sea with thy horses ,
the surging of mighty waters .
*
I hear ,
and my body trembles ,
my lips quiver at the sound ;
rottenness enters into my bones ,
my steps totter beneath me .
I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us .
*
Though the fig tree do not blossom ,
nor fruit be on the vines ,
the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food ,
the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls ,
*
yet I will rejoice in the LORD ,
I will joy in the God of my salvation .
*
GOD ,
the Lord ,
is my strength ;
he makes my feet like hinds '
feet ,
he makes me tread upon my high places .
To the choirmaster :
with stringed instruments .
![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}