1 Chronicles
Bible, King James Version
Habakkuk
Hab.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?
Hab.2
[
1] 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.
[
2] And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision,
and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
[
3]
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.
[
4] Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith.
[
5] 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:
[
6] 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!
[
7] Shall they not rise up suddenly
that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for
booties unto them?
[
8] 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.
[
9]
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!
[
10]
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast
sinned against thy soul.
[
11] For the stone shall cry out of the wall,
and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
[
12] Woe to him that
buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
[
13]
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?
[
14] For
the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the
waters cover the sea.
[
15] 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!
[
16] 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.
[
17] 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.
[
18]
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?
[
19] 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.
[
20] But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep
silence before him.
Hab.3
[
1] A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon
Shigionoth.
[
2] 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.
[
3] 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.
[
4] And his brightness was as the light; he had
horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his
power.
[
5] Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went
forth at his feet.
[
6] 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.
[
7] I saw the tents
of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did
tremble.
[
8] 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?
[
9] Thy bow was made
quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou
didst cleave the earth with rivers.
[
10] 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.
[
11] 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.
[
12] Thou didst march through the
land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
[
13] 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.
[
14] 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.
[
15]
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great
waters.
[
16] 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.
[
17] 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:
[
18] Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I
will joy in the God of my salvation.
[
19] 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.
