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| 1:1 | The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. |
| 1:2 | O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! |
| 1:3 | 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. |
| 1:4 | Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. |
| 1:5 | 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. |
| 1:6 | 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. |
| 1:7 | They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. |
| 1:8 | 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. |
| 1:9 | They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. |
| 1:10 | 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. |
| 1:11 | Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. |
| 1:12 | 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. |
| 1:13 | 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? |
| 1:14 | And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? |
| 1:15 | 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. |
| 1:16 | Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. |
| 1:17 | Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? |
| 1:1 | המשׂא אשׁר חזה חבקוק הנביא׃ |
| 1:2 | עד אנה יהוה שׁועתי ולא תשׁמע אזעק אליך חמס ולא תושׁיע׃ |
| 1:3 | למה תראני און ועמל תביט ושׁד וחמס לנגדי ויהי ריב ומדון ישׂא׃ |
| 1:4 | על כן תפוג תורה ולא יצא לנצח משׁפט כי רשׁע מכתיר את הצדיק על כן יצא משׁפט מעקל׃ |
| 1:5 | ראו בגוים והביטו והתמהו תמהו כי פעל פעל בימיכם לא תאמינו כי יספר׃ |
| 1:6 | כי הנני מקים את הכשׂדים הגוי המר והנמהר ההולך למרחבי ארץ לרשׁת משׁכנות לא׃ |
| 1:7 | אים ונורא הוא ממנו משׁפטו ושׂאתו יצא׃ |
| 1:8 | וקלו מנמרים סוסיו וחדו מזאבי ערב ופשׁו פרשׁיו ופרשׁיו מרחוק יבאו יעפו כנשׁר חשׁ לאכול׃ |
| 1:9 | כלה לחמס יבוא מגמת פניהם קדימה ויאסף כחול שׁבי׃ |
| 1:10 | והוא במלכים יתקלס ורזנים משׂחק לו הוא לכל מבצר ישׂחק ויצבר עפר וילכדה׃ |
| 1:11 | אז חלף רוח ויעבר ואשׁם זו כחו לאלהו׃ |
| 1:12 | הלוא אתה מקדם יהוה אלהי קדשׁי לא נמות יהוה למשׁפט שׂמתו וצור להוכיח יסדתו׃ |
| 1:13 | טהור עינים מראות רע והביט אל עמל לא תוכל למה תביט בוגדים תחרישׁ בבלע רשׁע צדיק ממנו׃ |
| 1:14 | ותעשׂה אדם כדגי הים כרמשׂ לא משׁל׃ |
| 1:15 | כלה בחכה העלה יגרהו בחרמו ויאספהו במכמרתו על כן ישׂמח ויגיל׃ |
| 1:16 | על כן יזבח לחרמו ויקטר למכמרתו כי בהמה שׁמן חלקו ומאכלו בראה׃ |
| 1:17 | העל כן יריק חרמו ותמיד להרג גוים לא יחמול׃ |
| 1:1 | The burden that Habakkuk the prophet hath seen: |
| 1:2 | Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee -- `Violence,' and Thou dost not save. |
| 1:3 | Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence `are' before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift `itself' up, |
| 1:4 | Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth. |
| 1:5 | Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is declared. |
| 1:6 | For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own. |
| 1:7 | Terrible and fearful it `is', From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth. |
| 1:8 | Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to consume. |
| 1:9 | Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity. |
| 1:10 | And at kings it doth scoff, And princes `are' a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it. |
| 1:11 | Then passed on hath the spirit, Yea, he doth transgress, And doth ascribe this his power to his god. |
| 1:12 | Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it. |
| 1:13 | Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he, |
| 1:14 | And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him. |
| 1:15 | Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice. |
| 1:16 | Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them `is' his portion fertile, and his food fat. |
| 1:17 | Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not? |
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