Read Habakkuk 1

World English Bible · 17 verses

1. ¹ The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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