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The Holy
Bible
Habakkuk
Chapter 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?
Chapter 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.
Chapter 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.
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