Habakkuk 1:1WEB
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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HabakkukWEB
Habakkuk 1:1WEB
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Habakkuk 1:2WEB
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Habakkuk 1:3WEB
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Habakkuk 1:4WEB
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
Habakkuk 1:5WEB
“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.
Habakkuk 1:6WEB
For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
Habakkuk 1:7WEB
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
Habakkuk 1:8WEB
Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
Habakkuk 1:9WEB
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
Habakkuk 1:10WEB
Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.
Habakkuk 1:11WEB
Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
Habakkuk 1:12WEB
Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Habakkuk 1:13WEB
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Habakkuk 1:14WEB
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
Habakkuk 1:15WEB
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16WEB
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
Habakkuk 1:17WEB
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.