Habacuque 1

1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

2 O

3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause

4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for

6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans,

7 They

8 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

9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up

10 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.

11 Then shall

14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things,

15 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.

16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion

17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?