Habakkuk 1 - King James Bible (KJV Book of Habakkuk) Free Bible Online


Habakkuk 1

1 - The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

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!

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.

4 - Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

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.

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.

7 - They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

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.

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.

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.

11 - Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto 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.

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?

14 - And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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.

16 - Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

17 - Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?


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The Holy Bible, King James Version. New York: American Bible Society: www.free-bible.com, 2010. www.free-bible.com/kjv/. Dec 18, 2024.

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