Holy Bible

Habakkuk

1.1 The burden that Habakkuk the prophet saw

1.2 How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? and I will cry unto thee in wrath, and thou wilt not save?

1.3 Why do you see me in trouble and hardship? Why do you look on me with anger and hatred? Why do you bear strife and strife against me?

1.4 Therefore the law shall cease, and judgment shall not go forth for ever. for the wicked crowneth the righteous. therefore judgment shall go forth perversely.

1.5 Look among the nations and stare and be amazed, you will be amazed, for he has worked in your days, you will not believe that he will tell.

1.6 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which walketh through the breadth of the land, to possess dwellings that are not theirs.

1.7 How terrible is his judgment, and how terrible is his coming out!

1.8 And his horses shall be lighter than leopards, and swifter than wolves of the evening; and his horsemen shall spread abroad, and his horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that seeketh to devour.

1.9 The bride of Ham will come from their front and gather the blue of captivity.

1.10 And he shall be a prey to kings, and shall play with princes. he shall play with every fortress, and shall gather up dust, and shall be taken.

1.11 Then a spirit passed by, and passed away, and this man attributed his strength to his God.

1.12 Art not thou YHVH, my holy God? Shall we not die, O LORD, in judgment? and in the judgment of the dead, and in the judgment of the mighty, to prove his foundation?

1.13 You are pure in eyes, and you cannot look on evil. Why do you look on traitors? You are silent when you swallow up the wicked, and the righteous are more righteous than he.

1.14 And thou madest man as the fish of the sea, and as a thornbush, so that there was no thorn in him.

1.15 The whole flock is gathered together in his flock, and he is gathered together in his sheaf. Therefore he will rejoice and be glad.

1.16 Therefore he shall sacrifice to his sanctuary, and burn incense to his consecration. for the fat of the beast is his portion, and his food is his creation.

1.17 The tree will spit out its destruction, and will never spare the slaughter of the nations.

2.1 I will stand on my watch, and set myself on the siege, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am rebuked.

2.2 Then YHVH answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon the lips, that he may run that readeth it.

2.3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, and yet for the end, and will not lie. though it tarry, wait for it. for it will surely come, it will not tarry.

2.4 Behold, the wicked shall not be upright in his soul. but the just shall live by his faith.

2.5 And though wine deceives a proud man, and he will not be satisfied, who has enlarged his soul like Sheol, and is like him, and cannot be satisfied, and gathers to him all the nations, and gathers to him all the peoples.

2.6 Do not all these take up a parable against him, and put forth riddles against him, and say, Woe to him who increases, how long, and makes his burden heavy?

2.7 Shall not thy teeth suddenly arise, and thy fangs be cut off, and thou shalt be a prey to them?

2.8 For thou art the kingdom of many nations. all the rest of the people shall cast thee out of the blood of men, and the land of Chariot, and all that dwell therein.

2.9 Woe to him who is greedy for gain, who is evil to his house, who has set his store on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil.

2.10 You have consulted for your house the ends of many peoples, and you have sinned against your soul.

2.11 For a stone from the wall will cry out, and a piece of wood will answer.

2.12 Woe to him who builds a city with blood, and establishes a city with burnt offerings!

2.13 Is it not from YHVH of hosts that the peoples shall be consumed with fire, and the nations shall flee with empty vessels?

2.14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of YHVH, as the waters cover the sea.

2.15 Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink from the cup of your wrath, and even drunkenness, that he may look upon their skins!

2.16 Thou shalt drink also of shame from honour, and thou shalt drink also of the cup of the right hand of YHVH, and dishonour shall be upon thine honour.

2.17 For the filth of Lebanon shall be consumed, and the filth of beasts shall be consumed with the blood of men, and the filth of the land of Kirjath, and all that dwell therein, shall be consumed.

2.18 What profit is an idol, for its idolatry is a mask, and a false teacher, for his inclination is sure, his inclination is to make dumb idols?

2.19 Woe to him who said to the sycamore tree, "Woe to me, for I am a silent stone!" He shoots, "Behold, he gathers gold and silver, and there is no breath in him."

2.20 And YHVH in his holy temple shall hide the whole earth from his presence.

3.1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet concerning the gardens.

3.2 O LORD, I have heard the voice of thee; I fear thee; O LORD, thou hast wrought in the midst of years. thou hast kept him alive in the midst of years. thou hast declared in the wrath of the womb, thou hast remembered.

3.3 God will come from Yemen, and the Holy One from Mount Paran, a pillar covering the heavens, and his praise will fill the earth.

3.4 And the sun shall be as the light, and rays shall be from his hand, and there shall be a strong hiding place.

3.5 A word shall go before him, and a rebuke shall come forth at his feet.

3.6 He stood and measured the earth, and saw the nations pass away, and the mountains were scattered, until the hills of the world were washed away, the paths of the world were his.

3.7 I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the curtains of the land of Midian.

3.8 YHVH is angry with the rivers, is your wrath with the rivers, is your transgression with the sea? For you ride on your horses, and on your chariots to salvation.

3.9 The city will be filled with your bow, seven pillars, and the rivers will split the earth.

3.10 He saw the mountains, he made a stream of water pass over, he gave the deep, his voice was lifted up, his hands were lifted up.

3.11 The sun and moon stood still, and the light of your arrows they went to the moon, the lightning of your spear.

3.12 The earth will march in fury, and with a roar it will trample the nations.

3.13 You went out to save your people, to save your anointed. You crushed the head of the wicked house, the foundation was laid bare, even to the neck of the wicked.

3.14 A female in the midst of the mountains will be ashamed to spread their joy to me, as if to feed the poor in secret.

3.15 You trod the sea, your horses trod many waters.

3.16 I heard, and my belly was troubled at the sound of the deep. my lips were troubled. and I laid up a box, wherein I might rest against the day of trouble, to go up to the people of our land.

3.17 For the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall there be fruit on the vines; the work of the olive shall be forsaken, and the fig tree shall not be made. the sheep shall eat the figs, and there shall be no cattle in the stalls.

3.18 But I will trust in YHVH, I will sing praises to the God of my Jesus.

3.19 YHVH, YHVH of hosts, will set my feet in stirrups; and in my death he will lead me as a conductor with my music.