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1:1  The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
1:2  O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
1:3  Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.
1:4  Therefore the law is slacked, and justice does never go forth: for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
1:5  Behold you among the nations, and regard, and wonder and be astonished: for I will work a work in your days, which you will not believe, though it be told you.
1:6  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
1:7  They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.
1:8  Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen press proudly on, their horsemen shall come from afar; they shall fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
1:9  They shall all come for violence: their faces are set like the east wind, and they shall gather captives as the sand.
1:10  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every stronghold; for they shall heap up earth, and take it.
1:11  Then shall his mind change, and he shall transgress, and offend, ascribing this his power unto his god.
1:12  Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.
1:13  You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why do you look upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?
1:14  And make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
1:15  They take up all of them with the hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
1:16  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their dragnet; because by them their portion is luxurious, and their food plentiful.
1:17  Shall they therefore empty their net, and continually slay the nations without mercy?