1:1 | The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. |
1:2 | O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! |
1:3 | 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. |
1:4 | Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. |
1:5 | 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. |
1:6 | 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. |
1:7 | They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. |
1:8 | 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. |
1:9 | They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. |
1:10 | 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. |
1:11 | Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. |
1:12 | 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. |
1:12 | 耶和華我的 神、我的聖者阿、你不是從亙古而有麼.我們必不致死。耶和華阿、你派定他為要刑罰人.磐石阿、你設立他為要懲治人。 |
1:12 | 耶和华我的神,我的圣者阿,你不是从亘古而有麽。我们必不致死。耶和华阿,你派定他为要刑罚人。磐石阿,你设立他为要惩治人。 |
psm:90:2 | Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. |
psm:93:2 | Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting. |
2ki:19:25 | Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. |
psm:17:13 | Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: |
isa:10:5 | O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. |
isa:10:6 | I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. |
isa:10:7 | Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. |
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1:13 | 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? |
1:14 | And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? |
1:15 | 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. |
1:16 | Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. |
1:17 | Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? |