35:001:001 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
35:001:002 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even
cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
35:001:003 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.
35:001:004 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go
forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth.
35:001:005 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.
35:001:006 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 their's.
35:001:007 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their
dignity shall proceed of themselves.
35:001:008 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.
35:001:009 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up
as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
35:001:010 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.
35:001:011 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and
offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
35:001:012 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.
35:001:013 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?
35:001:014 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
things, that have no ruler over them?
35:001:015 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.
35:001:016 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense
unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat
plenteous.
35:001:017 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
continually to slay the nations?
35:002:001 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and
will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer
when I am reproved.
35:002:002 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and
make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
35:002:003 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end
it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it
will surely come, it will not tarry.
35:002:004 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith.
35:002:005 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud
man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is
as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations,
and heapeth unto him all people:
35:002:006 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a
taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that
which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick
clay!
35:002:007 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and
awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
35:002:008 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of
the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the
violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
35:002:009 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house,
that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the
power of evil!
35:002:010 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many
people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
35:002:011 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of
the timber shall answer it.
35:002:012 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth
a city by iniquity!
35:002:013 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall
labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very
vanity?
35:002:014 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
35:002:015 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest
thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look
on their nakedness!
35:002:016 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and
let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall
be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
35:002:017 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil
of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the
violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
35:002:018 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of
his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
35:002:019 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb
stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and
silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
35:002:020 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep
silence before him.
35:003:001 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
35:003:002 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD,
revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years
make known; in wrath remember mercy.
35:003:003 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran.
Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his
praise.
35:003:004 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out
of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
35:003:005 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth
at his feet.
35:003:006 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove
asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the
perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
35:003:007 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of
the land of Midian did tremble.
35:003:008 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger
against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride
upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
35:003:009 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the
tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
35:003:010 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing
of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his
hands on high.
35:003:011 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the
light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering
spear.
35:003:012 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
thresh the heathen in anger.
35:003:013 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for
salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house
of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
35:003:014 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his
villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing
was as to devour the poor secretly.
35:003:015 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through
the heap of great waters.
35:003:016 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the
voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that
I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people,
he will invade them with his troops.
35:003:017 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit
be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields
shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and
there shall be no herd in the stalls:
35:003:018 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my
salvation.
35:003:019 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like
hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the
chief singer on my stringed instruments.