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Habakkuk 1
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| 1:1
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. |
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| 1:2
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto
thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! |
Does God help in time of need?
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| 1:3
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. |
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| 1:4
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for
the
wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment
proceedeth. |
(1:4, 13)
Do bad things happen to good people?
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| 1:5
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I
will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told
you. |
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| 1:6
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which
shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places
that are not theirs. |
God will have the Chaldeans (Babylonians) devastate Israel.
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| 1:7
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall
proceed of themselves. |
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| 1:8
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. |
 The Chaldeans' horses were faster than leopards and more fierce than wolves.
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| 1:9
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east
wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. |
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| 1:10
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. |
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| 1:11
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing
this his power unto his god. |
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| 1:12
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. |
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| 1:13
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? |
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| 1:14
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have
no ruler over them? |
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| 1:15
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. |
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| 1:16
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag;
because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. |
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| 1:17
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay
the nations?
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