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1:1  The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.
1:2  How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?
1:3  Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
1:4  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
1:5  "Look at the nations and watch-- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
1:6  I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
1:7  They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.
1:8  Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
1:9  they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.
1:10  They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them.
1:11  Then they sweep past like the wind and go on-- guilty people, whose own strength is their god."
1:12  LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, LORD, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
1:13  Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
1:14  You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
1:15  The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad.
1:16  Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
1:17  Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?