book_id: HAB

book: Habakkuk

reference: Habakkuk 1:1

text: The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.


reference: Habakkuk 1:2

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


reference: Habakkuk 1:3

text: 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.


reference: Habakkuk 1:4

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


reference: Habakkuk 1:5

text: ¶ 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.


reference: Habakkuk 1:6

text: 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.


reference: Habakkuk 1:7

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


reference: Habakkuk 1:8

text: 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.


reference: Habakkuk 1:9

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


reference: Habakkuk 1:10

text: 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.


reference: Habakkuk 1:11

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


reference: Habakkuk 1:12

text: ¶ 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.


reference: Habakkuk 1:13

text: 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?


reference: Habakkuk 1:14

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


reference: Habakkuk 1:15

text: 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.


reference: Habakkuk 1:16

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


reference: Habakkuk 1:17

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