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1:1  1 A complaint against the wicked that persecute the just. The burden, which Habakkuk the Prophet did see.
1:2  O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee for violence, and thou wilt not help!
1:3  Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold sorrow? for spoiling, and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
1:4  Therefore the Law is dissolved, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous: therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
1:5  Behold among the heathen, and regard, and wonder, and marvel: for I will work a work in your days: ye will not believe it, though it be told you.
1:6  For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and furious nation, which shall go upon the breadth of the land to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
1:7  They are terrible and fearful: their judgment, and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
1:8  Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the wolves in the evening: and their horsemen are many: and their horsemen shall come from far: they shall fly as the eagle hasting to meat.
1:9  They come all to spoil: for their faces shall be an East wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
1:10  And they shall mock the Kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every stronghold: for they shall gather dust, and take it.
1:11  Then shall they take a courage, and transgress and do wickedly, imputing this their power unto their god.
1:12  Art not thou of old, O Lord my God, mine holy One? we shall not die: O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment, and O God, thou hast established them for correction.
1:13  Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see evil: thou canst not behold wickedness: wherefore dost thou look upon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked devoureth the man, that is more righteous than he?
1:14  And makest men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
1:15  They take up all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarn, whereof they rejoice and are glad.
1:16  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their yarn, because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
1:17  Shall they therefore stretch out their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?