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Habakkuk 1:1-2:4
Habakkuk
Hab 1:1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
Hab 1:2 How long, Lord, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
Hab 1:3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
Hab 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.
The Lord’s Answer
Hab 1:5 “Look at the nations and watch—
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.
Hab 1:6 I am raising up the Babylonians,
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwellings not their own.
Hab 1:7 They are a feared and dreaded people;
they are a law to themselves
and promote their own honor.
Hab 1:8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
fiercer than wolves at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like a vulture swooping to devour;
Hab 1:9 they all come bent on violence.
Their hordes advance like a desert wind
and gather prisoners like sand.
Hab 1:10 They mock kings
and scoff at rulers.
They laugh at all fortified cities;
by building earthen ramps they capture them.
Hab 1:11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—
guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”
Habakkuk’s Second Complaint
Hab 1:12
Lord, are you not from everlasting?
My God, my Holy One, you will never die.
You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment;
you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
Hab 1:13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Hab 1:14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
Hab 1:15 The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks,
he catches them in his net,
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
and so he rejoices and is glad.
Hab 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
and enjoys the choicest food.
Hab 1:17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
destroying nations without mercy?
Hab 2:1 I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts;I will look to see what he will say to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
The Lord’s Answer
Hab 2:2 Then the Lord replied:
“Write down the revelation
and make it plain on tablets
so that a herald may run with it.
Hab 2:3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end
and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it;
it will certainly come
and will not delay.
Hab 2:4 “See, he is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous will live by their faithfulness —
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