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Key: (H)ub (G)ateway (S)trong's New Defender's Other |
1 | The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. | H · G · S Habakkuk |
2 | O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! | H · G · S |
3 | Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. | H · G · S |
4 |
Therefore the
law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth
compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
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H · G · S |
5 | Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. | H · G · S ye will not believe A1341 |
6 | For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. | H · G · S Chaldeans breadth of the land |
7 | They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. | H · G · S |
8 | Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. | H · G · S |
9 | They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. | H · G · S sup up |
10 | And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. | H · G · S heap dust |
11 |
Then shall his mind
change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power
unto his god.
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H · G · S his god |
12 | Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. | H · G · S from everlasting judgment |
13 | Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? | H · G · S look on iniquity |
14 | And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? | H · G · S |
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. | H · G · S |
16 | Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. | H · G · S |
17 |
Shall they therefore empty their
net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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H · G · S |
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