Habakkuk Chapter 1

• Habakkuk 1:1
  The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
• Habakkuk 1:2
  LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
• Habakkuk 1:3
  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 1:4
  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
• Habakkuk 1:5
  “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 1:6
  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...
• Habakkuk 1:7
  They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
• Habakkuk 1:8
  Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come fr...
• Habakkuk 1:9
  All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
• Habakkuk 1:10
  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 1:11
  Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
• Habakkuk 1:12
  Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to...
• Habakkuk 1:13
  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...
• Habakkuk 1:14
  and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
• Habakkuk 1:15
  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 1:16
  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 1:17
  Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?