Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/HAB.LZH/HAB

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1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
1:2 Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry
 out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.
1:3 Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou
 upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and
 there is strife, and contention riseth up.
1:4 Therefore the law is powerless, and justice doth never go
 forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore
 judgment goeth forth perverted.
1:5 See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder
 marvellously; for [I] work a work in your days, which ye will
 not believe, though it be declared [to you].
1:6 For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and
 impetuous nation, which marcheth through the breadth of the
 earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their
 dignity proceed from themselves.
1:8 And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more
 agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance
 proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an
 eagle that hasteth to devour.
1:9 They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces
 is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
1:10 Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a scorn unto
 him; he derideth every stronghold: for he heapeth up dust, and
 taketh it.
1:11 Then will his mind change, and he will pass on, and become
 guilty: this his power is become his +god.
1:12 -- Art thou not from everlasting, Jehovah my God, my Holy
 One? We shall not die. Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for
 judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast appointed him for correction.
1:13 [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not
 look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal
 treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth
 up a [man] more righteous than he?
1:14 And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the
 creeping things, that have no ruler over them.
1:15 He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in
 his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he
 rejoiceth and is glad:
1:16 therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense
 unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his
 meat dainty.
1:17 Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the
 nations continually?
2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and
 will look forth to see what he will say unto me, and what I
 shall answer as to my reproof.
2:2 And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and
 engrave it upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.
2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth
 to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it;
 for it will surely come, it will not delay.
2:4 Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright within him:
 but the just shall live by his faith.
2:5 And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man,
 and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and
 he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth
 unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.
2:6 Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a
 taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that
 increaseth that which is not his! how long? -- and to him that
 loadeth himself with pledges!
2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and
 they awake up that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for
 booties unto them?
2:8 Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the rest of
 the peoples shall plunder thee; because of men's blood, and for
 the violence [done] to the land, to the city, and all that
 dwell therein.
2:9 Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that
 he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the
 grasp of evil!
2:10 Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many
 peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.
2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out
 of the timber shall answer it.
2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
 establisheth a city by unrighteousness!
2:13 Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples
 labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
 glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.
2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, -- that
 pourest out thy flask, and makest [him] drunken also, that thou
 mayest look on their nakedness!
2:16 Thou art filled with shame instead of glory; drink thou
 also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of Jehovah's
 right hand shall be turned unto thee, and a shameful spewing
 shall be on thy glory.
2:17 For the violence [done] to Lebanon shall cover thee, and
 the destruction of beasts which made them afraid; because of
 men's blood, and for the violence [done] to the land, to the
 city, and all that dwell therein.
2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
 graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that
 the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?
2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! to the dumb
 stone, Arise! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid with gold
 and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
2:20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep
 silence before him!
3:1 A Prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
3:2 Jehovah, I heard the report of thee, [and] I feared.
 Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the
 midst of the years make [it] known: In wrath remember mercy!
3:3 +God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran.
 Selah. His glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is full of
 his praise.
3:4 And [his] brightness was as the light; Rays [came forth]
 from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.
3:5 Before him went the pestilence, And a burning flame went
 forth at his feet.
3:6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and discomfited
 the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The
 everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlasting.
3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the
 land of Midian did tremble.
3:8 Was Jehovah wrathful with the rivers? Was thine anger
 against the rivers? Was thy rage against the sea, That thou
 didst ride upon thy horses, Thy chariots of salvation?
3:9 Thy bow was made naked, The rods [of discipline] sworn
 according to [thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth
 with rivers.
3:10 The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of
 waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its
 hands on high.
3:11 The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation, At the
 light of thine arrows which shot forth, -- At the shining of
 thy glittering spear.
3:12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou
 didst thresh the nations in anger.
3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the
 salvation of thine anointed; Thou didst smite off the head from
 the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation even to the
 neck. Selah.
3:14 Thou didst strike through with his own spears the head of
 his leaders: They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me, Whose
 exulting was as to devour the afflicted secretly.
3:15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thy horses, The heap
 of great waters.
3:16 I heard, and my belly trembled; My lips quivered at the
 voice; Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my
 place, That I might rest in the day of distress, When their
 invader shall come up against the people.
3:17 For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, Neither shall
 fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive-tree shall fail,
 And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off
 from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
3:18 Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my
 salvation.
3:19 Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength, And he maketh my feet
 like hinds' [feet], And he will make me to walk upon my high
 places. To the chief Musician. On my stringed instruments.