Verse
KJV
King James 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 LORD, how
long
shall
I cry,
and
thou
wilt
not hear !
even
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
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
.
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 judgment
doth
never go
forth :
for the wicked doth
compass
about
the righteous ;
therefore
wrong
judgment
proceedeth
.
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 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.
“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 ,
which shall
march
through the breadth of the land,
to possess
the
dwellingplaces
that
are
not their's
.
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
shall
proceed
of
themselves.
They are dreaded
and feared;
from
themselves they
derive
justice
and
sovereignty
.
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
.
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
shall
come
all for
violence :
their faces
shall
sup
up
as
the east wind ,
and
they shall
gather the
captivity
as
the
sand.
All of
them
come
bent
on
violence ;
their hordes
advance
like
the east wind ;
they gather prisoners
like
sand.
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.
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
his
mind
change,
and he
shall
pass over,
and
offend,
imputing
this
his
power
unto
his
god.
Then they
sweep
by
like
the
wind
and pass on
through.
They
are
guilty;
their
own
strength
is
their
god. ”
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.
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
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
?
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 .
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
.
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 they
sacrifice
unto
their
net,
and burn
incense unto
their
drag;
because
by them
their
portion is fat,
and their
meat
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
they
therefore empty their
net ,
and not
spare
continually
to slay the
nations?
Will
he,
therefore ,
empty his
net and continue
to slay nations without
mercy
?
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