Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
The burden which
Habakkuk the prophet did
see.
The burden that
Habakkuk the prophet hath
seen:
O LORD
, how
long
shall
I cry
, and thou wilt
not hear !
even
cry out
unto thee of
violence, and thou wilt
not save !
Till
when,
O Jehovah
, have
I cried
, And Thou dost
not hear ?
I
cry unto Thee --
`
Violence, '
and Thou dost
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 dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity
dost
cause to behold? And
spoiling and violence `
are '
before me ,
And there is
strife ,
and contention doth
lift
`itself'
up,
Therefore the
law is
slacked
, and judgment doth never
go forth :
for the wicked doth
compass
about
the righteous ;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth
.
Therefore doth
law cease
, And judgment doth not
go forth for ever,
For
the wicked is
compassing
the righteous ,
Therefore wrong judgment goeth
forth
.
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
ye on
nations
, and behold
and marvel
greatly.
For a work He
is
working
in your days ,
Ye do
not believe though it is
declared
.
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, lo, I am
raising
up the Chaldeans, The
bitter and hasty nation, That
is
going
to
the broad
places
of earth
, To occupy
tabernacles
not its
own
.
They
are
terrible and dreadful:
their
judgment and their
dignity
shall
proceed
of
themselves
.
Terrible and fearful
it
`is',
From
itself
its
judgment and its
excellency
go
forth
.
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
.
Swifter than leopards have
been
its
horses
, And sharper
than evening wolves ,
And increased
have
its
horsemen, Even
its
horsemen from afar
come
in,
They fly as an
eagle ,
hasting
to consume
.
They
shall
come
all
for violence :
their faces shall
sup
up as
the east wind, and they
shall
gather the
captivity
as the sand.
Wholly
for violence it
doth
come
in,
Their faces swallowing
up the east wind, And it
doth
gather as the sand a
captivity
.
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.
And at kings it
doth
scoff
, And princes `are'
a laughter
to
it,
At
every fenced
place
it
doth
laugh,
And
it
heapeth
up
dust, and captureth
it.
Then shall
his
mind
change
, and
he shall
pass
over
, and offend,
imputing
this his power unto
his god.
Then passed
on
hath
the
spirit
, Yea,
he doth
transgress
, And doth
ascribe
this his power to
his 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
.
Art not Thou
of
old
, O Jehovah,
my God, my
Holy One? We do
not die ,
O Jehovah
, For judgment Thou
hast
appointed
it,
And, O Rock
, for
reproof
Thou hast founded
it
.
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 ?
Purer of
eyes than to behold evil, To
look on perverseness
Thou art
not
able
, Why
dost
Thou
behold
the
treacherous?
Thou
keepest
silent
when the wicked Doth
swallow
the more righteous than he ,
And makest men
as the
fishes of the sea, as the
creeping things,
that
have
no
ruler
over them?
And Thou
makest man
as fishes of the sea, As a
creeping thing
--
none
ruling
over him.
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
.
Each
of them with a
hook
he
hath
brought
up
, He
doth
catch it
in his
net, and gathereth
it
in his
drag ,
Therefore he
doth
joy
and rejoice
.
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
doth
sacrifice to
his
net, And doth
make
perfume
to
his
drag ,
For
by them `
is '
his
portion
fertile
, and his
food
fat
.
Shall
they
therefore empty their
net, and not
spare
continually to slay the
nations?
Doth
he
therefore empty his
net, And continually to slay nations spare
not
?
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