1 Scroll 11 The 12 Prophets (Habakkuk).
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 LORD, until when shall I cry, and Thou will not hear!
Even cry out to Thee of violence, and Thou will not save!
3 Why do Thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance?
For devastation and violence are before me: and there are that raise strife and contention.
4 Therefore the Law is slackened, and judgment does never go forth:
for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.
5
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days,
a work which ye may not believe, though anyone declare it to you. Act 13:41
6 For behold, 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.
7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from 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 hastens 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 to 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 to his god.
12 Are Thou not from everlasting, LORD my God, My Holy One? We shall not die.
LORD, Thou have ordained them for judgment; my Rock, Thou have established them for correction.
13 Thou are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity: why look Thou on them that deal treacherously,
and keep silence when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than He?
14
And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals that have no ruler over them?
15 They take up all of them with the hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag:
therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag;
because by them their portion is fat, and their food plenteous.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
1 I will stand upon my watch, and seat myself upon the tower,
and will watch to see what He will say to me,
and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 The LORD answered me, and said,
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that He may run that reads it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time,
but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry,
wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up, is not straight in him:
but the just shall live by faith. Rom 1:17
5
Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man,
neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire, as Sheol, and is as death,
and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and collects to him all peoples:
6 shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him,
and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his!
Until when? And to him that lades himself with thick clay[many pledges]!
7 Shall they not rise suddenly that shall bite[the creditors] Thee,
and awake that shall disturb Thee, and Thou shall be a prey to them?
8 Because Thou have laid waste many nations, all the remnant of the people shall lay Thee waste;
because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it.
9
Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
10 Thou have consulted shame to Thy house by cutting off many people, and have 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 builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not from the LORD of Sabaoth that the peoples shall labour in the very fire, and the nations 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 to him that gives his neighbour drink, that put Thy bottle to him, and make him also drunken, that Thou may look on their nakedness!
16 Thou are 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 to Thee, and shameful vomiting 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 in it.
18 What profits the graven image that its maker has graven it; the molten image,
and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
19
Woe to him that said 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 middle of it.
20 But the LORD is in His Holy Temple: let all the Earth keep silence before Him.
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
2
LORD, I have heard Thy report, and was afraid:
LORD, revive, Thy work in the middle of the years,
in the middle 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 trembled.
8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers?
Was Thy anger against the rivers?
Was Thy wrath against the sea,
that Thou did ride upon Thy 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 did cleave the Earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled:
the overflowing of the water passed by:
the Abyss uttered his voice,
and lifted up his hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation:
at the light of Thy arrows they went,
and at the shining of Thy glittering spear.
12 Thou did march through the land in indignation,
Thou did thresh the heathen in anger.
13 Thou went forth for the Salvation of Thy people,
for Salvation with Thy Messiah.
Thou struck the head from the house of the wicked,
to bare the foundation to the neck. (Selah).
14
Thou did strike through with his staffs 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 did walk through the sea with Thy horses,
through the mire 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 comes up to 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 food;
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, Lord is my Strength,
and He will make my feet like hinds' feet,
and He will make me to walk upon my high places.
(To the chief musician on my stringed instruments).