If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Habakkuk
Chapter 1
001:001 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did
see.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
001:007 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment
and their
dignity shall proceed of
themselves.
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.
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.
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.
001:011 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass
over, and
offend, imputing this
his power unto his god.
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.
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?
001:014 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the
creeping
things, that have no
ruler over them?
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.
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.
001:017 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not
spare
continually to slay the
nations?
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.
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.
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.
002:004 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not
upright in him: but
the just shall
live by his faith.
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:
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!
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?
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.
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!
002:010 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by
cutting off many
people, and hast
sinned against thy soul.
002:011 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the
beam out of
the timber shall
answer it.
002:012 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
stablisheth a
city by
iniquity!
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?
002:014 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge
of the glory
of the LORD, as the
waters cover the sea.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
002:020 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the
earth keep
silence before him.
003:001 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
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.
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.
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.
003:005 Before him went the pestilence, and burning
coals went forth
at his feet.
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.
003:007 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the
curtains of
the land of Midian did
tremble.
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?
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.
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.
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.
003:012 Thou didst march through the land in
indignation, thou didst
thresh the
heathen in anger.
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.
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.
003:015 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine
horses, through the
heap of great
waters.
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.
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:
003:018 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in
the God of my
salvation.
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.