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| Habakkuk 1:1 | The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. | | The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw. |
| Habakkuk 1:2 | O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out to thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! | | How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation. |
| Habakkuk 1:3 | Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for devastation and violence are before me: and there are that raise strife and contention. | | Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument. |
| Habakkuk 1:4 | Therefore the law is slackened, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth encompass the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. | | For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted. |
| Habakkuk 1:5 | 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. | | See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you. |
| Habakkuk 1:6 | For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. | | For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs. |
| Habakkuk 1:7 | They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves. | | They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves. |
| Habakkuk 1:8 | 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 that hasteth to eat. | | And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food. |
| Habakkuk 1:9 | They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. | | They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea. |
| Habakkuk 1:10 | And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. | | He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them. |
| Habakkuk 1:11 | Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power to his god. | | Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god. |
| Habakkuk 1:12 | Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my 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 eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right. |
| Habakkuk 1:13 | Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? | | Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself? |
| Habakkuk 1:14 | And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals that have no ruler over them? | | He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them. |
| Habakkuk 1:15 | 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. | | He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy. |
| Habakkuk 1:16 | Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food plenteous. | | For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat. |
| Habakkuk 1:17 | Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? | | For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations. |
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