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| 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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| 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. |
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