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| 1:1 | The burden which Habakkuk ye Prophet did see. |
| 1:2 | O Lord, howe long shall I crie, and thou wilt not heare! euen cry out vnto thee of violence, and thou wilt not saue? |
| 1:3 | Why doest thou shew me iniquity, & cause me to behold grieuance? for spoiling and violence are before me: & there are that raise vp strife and contention. |
| 1:4 | Therefore the Lawe is slacked, and iudgement doeth neuer goe foorth: for the wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therfore wrong iudgement proceedeth. |
| 1:5 | Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marueilously: for I wil worke a worke in your daies, which yee will not beleeue, though it be tolde you. |
| 1:6 | For loe, I raise vp the Caldeans, that bitter and hastie nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs. |
| 1:7 | They are terrible and dreadfull: their iudgement and their dignity shal proceed of themselues. |
| 1:8 | Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the euening wolues: & their horsemen shall spread themselues, and their horsemen shall come from farre, they shall flie as the Eagle that hasteth to eate. |
| 1:9 | They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup vp as the East winde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sand. |
| 1:10 | And they shal scoffe at the Kings, and the Princes shall bee a scorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde, for they shall heape dust & take it. |
| 1:11 | Then shall his minde change, and he shall passe ouer, and offend, imputing this his power vnto his God. |
| 1:12 | Art thou not from euerlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy one? we shall not die: O Lord, thou hast ordained them for iudgement, and O mightie God, thou hast established them for correction. |
| 1:13 | Thou art of purer eyes then to beholde euill, and canst not looke on ininquitie: wherefore lookest thou vpon them that deale treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then hee? |
| 1:14 | And makest men as the fishes of the Sea, as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them. |
| 1:15 | They take vp all of them with the angle: they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragge; therefore they reioyce and are glad. |
| 1:16 | Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their drag: because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. |
| 1:17 | Shall they therefore emptie their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? |
| 1:1 | This is the heuy burthe, which the prophet Abacuc dyd se. |
| 1:2 | O LORDE, how longe shal I crie, & thou wilt not heare? How longe shall I complayne vnto the, suffrynge wronge, and thou wilt not helpe? |
| 1:3 | Why lettest thou me se weerynesse and laboure? Tyrany and violence are before me, power ouergoeth right: |
| 1:4 | for the lawe is torne in peces, and there can no right iudgment go forth. And why? the vngodly is more set by then the rightuous: this is the cause, yt wronge iudgment procedeth. |
| 1:5 | Beholde amonge the Heithen, and loke wel: wondre at it, and be aba?shed: for I wil do a thinge in youre tyme, which though it be tolde you, ye shal not beleue. |
| 1:6 | For lo, I wil rase vp ye Caldees, that bytter and swifte people: which shal go as wyde as the londe is, to take possession of dwellinge places, that be not their owne. |
| 1:7 | A grymme & boysteous people is it, these shal syt in iudgment & punyshe. |
| 1:8 | Their horses are swifter then the cattes of the mountayne, & byte sorer then ye wolues in ye euenynge. Their horsmen come by greate heapes from farre, they fle hastely to deuor as the Aegle. |
| 1:9 | They come all to spoyle: out of them commeth an east wynde, which bloweth and gathereth their captyues, like as the sonde. |
| 1:10 | They shall mocke the kinges, and laugh the prynces to scorne. They shal not set by eny stronge holde, for they shal laye ordinaunce agaynst it, and take it. |
| 1:11 | Then shal they take a fresh corage vnto them, to go forth & to do more euell, & so ascrybe that power vnto their God. |
| 1:12 | But thou o LORDE my God, my holy one, thou art from the begynnynge, therfore shal we not dye. O LORDE, thou hast ordened them for a punyshmet, and set them to reproue the mightie. |
| 1:13 | Thine eyes are clene, thou mayest not se euell, thou canst not beholde ye thinge that is wicked. Wherfore then dost thou loke vpon the vngodly, and holdest thy tunge, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is better the himself? |
| 1:14 | Thou makest men as the fish in the see, and like as the crepinge beestes, that haue no gyde. |
| 1:15 | They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad. |
| 1:16 | Therfore offre they vnto their net, and do sacrifice vnto their yarne: because that thorow it their porcion is become so fat, and their meate so pleteous. |
| 1:17 | Wherfore they cast out their net agayne, & neuer ceasse to slaye the people. |
| 1:1 | The birthun that Abacuk, the profete, sai. |
| 1:2 | Hou longe, Lord, schal Y crye, and thou schalt not here? Y suffrynge violence schal crie an hiy to thee, and thou schalt not saue? |
| 1:3 | Whi schewidist thou to me wickidnesse and trauel, for to se prey and vnriytwisnesse ayens me? Whi biholdist thou dispiseris, and art stille, the while an vnpitouse man defoulith a riytfulere than hym silf? And thou schalt make men as fischis of the see, and as crepynge thingis not hauynge a ledere; and doom is maad, and ayenseiyng is more miyti. |
| 1:4 | For this thing lawe is `to-brokun, and doom cometh not til to the ende; for the vnpitouse man hath miyt ayens the iust, therfor weiward doom schal go out. |
| 1:5 | Biholde ye in hethene men, and se ye, and wondre ye, and greetli drede ye; for a werk is doon in youre daies, which no man schal bileue, whanne it schal be teld. |
| 1:6 | For lo! Y schal reise Caldeis, a bittir folk and swift, goynge on the breede of erthe, that he welde tabernaclis not hise. |
| 1:7 | It is orible, and dredeful; the dom and birthun therof schal go out of it silf. |
| 1:8 | His horsis ben liytere than pardis, and swifter than euentyd woluys, and hise horse men schulen be scaterid abrood; for whi `horse men schulen come fro fer, thei schulen fle as an egle hastynge to ete. |
| 1:9 | Alle men schulen come to preye, the faces of hem is as a brennynge wynd; and he schal gadere as grauel caitifte, |
| 1:10 | and he schal haue victorie of kyngis, and tirauntis schulen be of his scornyng. He schal leiye on al strengthe, and schal bere togidere heep of erthe, and schal take it. |
| 1:11 | Thanne the spirit schal be chaungid, and he schal passe forth, and falle doun; this is the strengthe of hym, of his god. |
| 1:12 | Whether `thou, Lord, art not my God, myn hooli, and we schulen not die? Lord, in to doom thou hast set hym, and thou groundidist hym strong, that thou schuldist chastise. |
| 1:13 | Thin iyen ben clene, se thou not yuel, and thou schalt not mowe biholde to wickidnesse. Whi biholdist thou not on men doynge wickidli, and thou art stille, while the vnpitouse man deuourith a more iust man than hymsilf? |
| 1:14 | And thou schalt make men as fischis of the see, and as a crepynge thing not hauynge prince. |
| 1:15 | He schal lifte vp al in the hook; he drawide it in his greet net, and gaderide in to his net; on this thing he schal be glad, and make ioie with outforth. |
| 1:16 | Therfore he schal offere to his greet net, and schal make sacrifice to his net; for in hem his part is maad fat, and his mete is chosun. |
| 1:17 | Therfor for this thing he spredith abrood his greet net, and euere more he ceesith not for to sle folkis. |
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