Verse
ASV
American Standard Version
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
The burden which
Habakkuk the prophet did
see.
This
is
the burden that
Habakkuk the prophet received
in
a
vision:
O
Jehovah,
how long shall
I
cry
, and
thou
wilt
not hear ?
I
cry out unto
thee
of
violence
, and
thou
wilt
not save .
How long, O
LORD,
must
I
call
for
help
but
You
do
not hear ,
or
cry out to
You
, “Violence!”
but
You
do
not save ?
Why dost
thou
show
me iniquity ,
and
look
upon
perverseness
? for
destruction and violence are before me ;
and
there
is
strife, and contention
riseth
up
.
Why do
You
make
me see
iniquity? Why
do
You
tolerate
wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me .
Strife is
ongoing
, and conflict
abounds
.
Therefore the law is slacked
, and justice doth
never go
forth ;
for the wicked doth
compass
about
the righteous ;
therefore
justice goeth
forth
perverted.
Therefore the law is paralyzed
, and justice never goes
forth .
For the wicked hem
in
the righteous ,
so
that
justice is
perverted.
Behold
ye
among
the nations ,
and look,
and
wonder
marvellously;
for I am working
a work in your days ,
which
ye
will
not
believe though
it
be
told you.
“Look
at
the nations and observe—
be
utterly
astounded!
For I am doing
a work in your days that
you
would
never
believe even
if
someone
told you.
For ,
lo
, I raise
up the Chaldeans ,
that bitter
and hasty
nation ,
that
march
through the breadth of the earth ,
to possess
dwelling-places
that
are
not theirs
.
For behold
, I am
raising
up the Chaldeans —
that ruthless
and impetuous
nation which
marches
through the breadth of the earth to seize
dwellings
not their
own
.
They are terrible
and dreadful
; their
judgment
and
their
dignity
proceed
from themselves.
They are dreaded
and feared
; from themselves they
derive
justice
and
sovereignty
.
Their horses also
are swifter than leopards, and
are
more
fierce
than the
evening
wolves ;
and
their horsemen press
proudly
on:
yea
, their horsemen
come
from far;
they fly as
an
eagle
that
hasteth
to devour.
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer
than wolves of
the
night.
Their horsemen charge
ahead
, and
their cavalry
comes
from afar.
They fly like
a
vulture,
swooping
down
to devour.
They
come
all of them for
violence; the
set
of
their faces
is
forwards
; and
they gather captives
as
the
sand.
All of them come
bent
on
violence; their hordes
advance
like
the
east
wind
; they gather prisoners
like
sand.
Yea,
he
scoffeth
at kings ,
and princes
are
a
derision
unto
him;
he
derideth
every stronghold;
for
he
heapeth
up
dust,
and taketh
it.
They
scoff
at kings and make
rulers
an
object
of
scorn.
They
laugh
at
every fortress
and build
up
siege
ramps
to
seize
it.
Then shall
he
sweep by `as'
a
wind ,
and shall
pass over,
and
be
guilty ,
`even'
he
whose
might
is his
god.
Then they
sweep by like
the
wind and pass on
through.
They
are
guilty ;
their
own
strength
is their
god. ”
Art
not thou
from everlasting, O Jehovah
my God, my Holy One? we shall
not die. O Jehovah
, thou
hast
ordained
him
for
judgment; and
thou,
O Rock, hast
established him
for correction.
Are
You
not from everlasting, O LORD,
my God, my Holy One? We will
not die. O LORD
, You
have
appointed
them
to
execute
judgment; O Rock, You
have
established them
for correction.
Thou
that
art
of
purer
eyes than
to behold
evil,
and
that
canst
not
look on
perverseness,
wherefore
lookest
thou
upon them
that
deal
treacherously
, and holdest
thy
peace
when
the wicked swalloweth
up the
man
that
is
more righteous than he;
Your
eyes are
too
pure
to look upon evil
, and You
cannot
tolerate
wrongdoing.
So
why
do
You
tolerate
the faithless?
Why
are
You
silent
while
the
wicked swallow
up those
more righteous than themselves?
and
makest
men as
the fishes
of the sea, as
the
creeping things ,
that have no ruler over
them?
You
have
made
men like
the fish
of the sea, like
creeping things that have no ruler .
He
taketh
up
all of them with the
angle,
he catcheth
them in his net
, and gathereth
them in his drag:
therefore
he rejoiceth
and
is
glad
.
The
foe
pulls
all of them up
with a
hook;
he catches
them in his dragnet
, and gathers
them in his fishing
net;
so
he rejoices
gladly
.
Therefore he sacrificeth
unto
his net,
and burneth
incense unto
his drag;
because
by them
his portion is fat,
and his food plenteous
.
Therefore he sacrifices
to
his dragnet
and burns
incense to
his fishing
net,
for
by these
things
his portion is sumptuous
and his food is
rich
.
Shall
he therefore empty his net ,
and spare
not
to slay the
nations continually
?
Will
he ,
therefore ,
empty his net and continue
to slay nations without
mercy
?
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