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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. 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 watch-- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then they sweep past like the wind and go on-- guilty people, whose own strength is their god." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, LORD, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? 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 people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy? |
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