Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
KJV
King James Version
The burden that
Habakkuk the prophet hath
seen:
The burden which
Habakkuk the prophet did
see.
Till
when,
O Jehovah
, have
I cried
, And Thou dost
not hear ?
I
cry unto Thee --
`
Violence, '
and Thou dost
not save .
O LORD
, how
long
shall
I cry
, and thou wilt
not hear !
even
cry out
unto thee of
violence, and thou wilt
not save !
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,
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 .
Therefore doth
law cease
, And judgment doth not
go forth for
ever,
For the wicked is
compassing
the righteous ,
Therefore wrong judgment goeth
forth
.
Therefore the
law is
slacked
, and judgment doth never
go forth :
for the wicked doth
compass
about
the righteous ;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
Terrible and fearful
it
`is',
From
itself
its
judgment and its
excellency
go
forth
.
They
are
terrible and dreadful:
their
judgment and their
dignity
shall
proceed
of
themselves
.
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
.
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
.
Wholly
for violence it
doth
come
in,
Their faces swallowing
up the east wind, And it
doth
gather as the sand a
captivity
.
They
shall
come
all
for violence :
their faces shall
sup
up as
the east wind, and they
shall
gather the
captivity
as the sand.
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.
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.
Then passed
on
hath
the
spirit,
Yea
, he doth
transgress
, And doth
ascribe
this his power to
his god.
Then shall
his
mind
change
, and
he shall
pass
over
, and offend,
imputing
this his power unto
his god.
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
.
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
.
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 ,
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 ?
And Thou
makest man
as fishes of the sea, As a
creeping thing
--
none
ruling
over him.
And makest men
as the
fishes of the sea, as the
creeping things,
that
have
no
ruler
over them?
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.
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
.
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
.
Therefore they
sacrifice unto
their
net, and burn
incense
unto
their
drag ;
because
by them their
portion is
fat
, and their
meat
plenteous
.
Doth
he
therefore empty his
net, And continually to slay nations spare
not
?
Shall
they
therefore empty their
net, and not
spare
continually to slay the
nations?
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