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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy? |
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