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1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 O LORD [Yahweh], how long will I cry, and you will not hear! [even] cry out to you [of] violence, and you will not save!
3 Why do you show 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 does never go forth: for the wicked does encircle about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.
5 Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] you will not believe, though it be told [you].
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which will 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 will proceed of themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen will spread themselves, and their horsemen will come from far; they will fly as the eagle [that] has to eat.
9 They will come all for violence: their faces will sup up [as] the east wind, and they will gather the captivity as the sand.
10 And they will scoff at the kings, and the princes will be a scorn to them: they will deride every strong hold; for they will heap dust, and take it.
11 Then will [his] mind change, and he will pass over, and offend, [imputing] this his power to his god.
12 [Are] you not from everlasting, O LORD [Yahweh] my God, my Holy One? we will not die. O LORD [Yahweh], you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.
13 [You are] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why look you upon them that deal treacherously, [and] hold your tongue when the wicked devours [the man that is] more righteous than he?
14 And make 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 to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.
17 Will they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?