King James Bible

Nahum 3

The Book of Habakkuk

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Chapter 1

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  The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.  

 

 


2


 

  O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!  

 

 


3


 

  Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention.  

 

 


4


 

  Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.  

 

 


5


 

  Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you].  

 

 


6


 

  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.  

 

 


7


 

  They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.  

 

 


8


 

  Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat.  

 

 


9


 

  They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.  

 

 


10


 

  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.  

 

 


11


 

  Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, [imputing] this his power unto his god.  

 

 


12


 

  [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.  

 

 


13


 

  [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?  

 

 


14


 

  And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?  

 

 


15


 

  They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.  

 

 


16


 

  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.  

 

 


17


 

  Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?  

 

 


Habakkuk 2

 

 

 

 

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