* BOOK35 HABAKKUK
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 THE BURDEN WHICH HABAKKUK THE PROPHET DID SEE.
# 2 O LORD, HOW LONG SHALL I CRY, AND THOU WILT NOT HEAR! EVEN CRY OUT UNTO
 THEE OF VIOLENCE, AND THOU WILT NOT SAVE!
# 3 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.
# 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 MARVELOUSLY: FOR I
 WILL WORK A WORK IN YOUR DAYS WHICH YE WILL NOT BELIEVE, THOUGH IT BE TOLD
 YOU.
# 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 DWELLINGPLACES
 THAT ARE NOT THEIRS.
# 7 THEY ARE TERRIBLE AND DREADFUL: THEIR JUDGMENT AND THEIR DIGNITY SHALL
 PROCEED OF THEMSELVES.
# 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.
# 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.
# 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 HIS MIND CHANGE, AND HE SHALL PASS OVER, AND OFFEND, IMPUTING
 THIS HIS POWER UNTO HIS GOD.
# 12 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.
# 13 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?
# 14 AND MAKEST MEN AS THE FISHES OF THE SEA, AS THE CREEPING THINGS, THAT
 HAVE NO RULER OVER THEM?
# 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 IS FAT, AND THEIR MEAT PLENTEOUS.
# 17 SHALL THEY THEREFORE EMPTY THEIR NET, AND NOT SPARE CONTINUALLY TO SLAY
 THE NATIONS?
= CHAPTER 2 
# 1 I WILL STAND UPON MY WATCH, AND SET ME UPON THE TOWER, AND WILL WATCH TO
 SEE WHAT HE WILL SAY UNTO ME, AND WHAT I SHALL ANSWER WHEN I AM REPROVED.
# 2 AND THE LORD ANSWERED ME, AND SAID, WRITE THE VISION, AND MAKE IT PLAIN
 UPON TABLES, THAT HE MAY RUN THAT READETH IT.
# 3 FOR THE VISION IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED TIME, BUT AT THE END IT SHALL
 SPEAK, AND NOT LIE: THOUGH IT TARRY, WAIT FOR IT; BECAUSE IT WILL SURELY
 COME, IT WILL NOT TARRY.
# 4 BEHOLD, HIS SOUL WHICH IS LIFTED UP IS NOT UPRIGHT IN HIM: BUT THE JUST
 SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH.
# 5 YEA ALSO, BECAUSE HE TRANSGRESSETH BY WINE, HE IS A PROUD MAN, NEITHER
 KEEPETH AT HOME, WHO ENLARGETH HIS DESIRE AS HELL, AND IS AS DEATH, AND
 CANNOT BE SATISFIED, BUT GATHERETH UNTO HIM ALL NATIONS, AND HEAPETH UNTO HIM
 ALL PEOPLE:
# 6 SHALL NOT ALL THESE TAKE UP A PARABLE AGAINST HIM, AND A TAUNTING PROVERB
 AGAINST HIM, AND SAY, WOE TO HIM THAT INCREASETH THAT WHICH IS NOT HIS! HOW
 LONG? AND TO HIM THAT LADETH HIMSELF WITH THICK CLAY!
# 7 SHALL THEY NOT RISE UP SUDDENLY THAT SHALL BITE THEE, AND AWAKE THAT
 SHALL VEX THEE, AND THOU SHALT BE FOR BOOTIES UNTO THEM?
# 8 BECAUSE THOU HAST SPOILED MANY NATIONS, ALL THE REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE
 SHALL SPOIL THEE; BECAUSE OF MENS BLOOD, AND FOR THE VIOLENCE OF THE LAND, OF
 THE CITY, AND OF ALL THAT DWELL THEREIN.
# 9 WOE TO HIM THAT COVETETH AN EVIL COVETOUSNESS TO HIS HOUSE, THAT HE MAY
 SET HIS NEST ON HIGH, THAT HE MAY BE DELIVERED FROM THE POWER OF EVIL!
# 10 THOU HAST CONSULTED SHAME TO THY HOUSE BY CUTTING OFF MANY PEOPLE, AND
 HAST SINNED AGAINST THY SOUL.
# 11 FOR THE STONE SHALL CRY OUT OF THE WALL, AND THE BEAM OUT OF THE TIMBER
 SHALL ANSWER IT.
# 12 WOE TO HIM THAT BUILDETH A TOWN WITH BLOOD, AND STABLISHETH A CITY BY
 INIQUITY!
# 13 BEHOLD, IS IT NOT OF THE LORD OF HOSTS THAT THE PEOPLE SHALL LABOUR IN
 THE VERY FIRE, AND THE PEOPLE SHALL WEARY THEMSELVES FOR VERY VANITY?
# 14 FOR THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY OF THE
 LORD, AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.
# 15 WOE UNTO HIM THAT GIVETH HIS NEIGHBOUR DRINK, THAT PUTTEST THY BOTTLE TO
 HIM, AND MAKEST HIM DRUNKEN ALSO, THAT THOU MAYEST LOOK ON THEIR NAKEDNESS!
# 16 THOU ART FILLED WITH SHAME FOR GLORY: DRINK THOU ALSO, AND LET THY
 FORESKIN BE UNCOVERED: THE CUP OF THE LORDS RIGHT HAND SHALL BE TURNED UNTO
 THEE, AND SHAMEFUL SPEWING SHALL BE ON THY GLORY.
# 17 FOR THE VIOLENCE OF LEBANON SHALL COVER THEE, AND THE SPOIL OF BEASTS,
 WHICH MADE THEM AFRAID, BECAUSE OF MENS BLOOD, AND FOR THE VIOLENCE OF THE
 LAND, OF THE CITY, AND OF ALL THAT DWELL THEREIN.
# 18 WHAT PROFITETH THE GRAVEN IMAGE THAT THE MAKER THEREOF HATH GRAVEN IT;
 THE MOLTEN IMAGE, AND A TEACHER OF LIES, THAT THE MAKER OF HIS WORK TRUSTETH
 THEREIN, TO MAKE DUMB IDOLS?
# 19 WOE UNTO HIM THAT SAITH TO THE WOOD, AWAKE; TO THE DUMB STONE, ARISE, IT
 SHALL TEACH! BEHOLD, IT IS LAID OVER WITH GOLD AND SILVER, AND THERE IS NO
 BREATH AT ALL IN THE MIDST OF IT.
# 20 BUT THE LORD IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE: LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE
 BEFORE HIM.
= CHAPTER 3 
# 1 A PRAYER OF HABAKKUK THE PROPHET UPON SHIGIONOTH.
# 2 O LORD, I HAVE HEARD THY SPEECH, AND WAS AFRAID: O LORD, REVIVE THY WORK
 IN THE MIDST OF THE YEARS, IN THE MIDST OF THE YEARS MAKE KNOWN; IN WRATH
 REMEMBER MERCY.
# 3 GOD CAME FROM TEMAN, AND THE HOLY ONE FROM MOUNT PARAN. SELAH. HIS GLORY
 COVERED THE HEAVENS, AND THE EARTH WAS FULL OF HIS PRAISE.
# 4 AND HIS BRIGHTNESS WAS AS THE LIGHT; HE HAD HORNS COMING OUT OF HIS HAND:
 AND THERE WAS THE HIDING OF HIS POWER.
# 5 BEFORE HIM WENT THE PESTILENCE, AND BURNING COALS WENT FORTH AT HIS FEET.
# 6 HE STOOD, AND MEASURED THE EARTH: HE BEHELD, AND DROVE ASUNDER THE
 NATIONS; AND THE EVERLASTING MOUNTAINS WERE SCATTERED, THE PERPETUAL HILLS
 DID BOW: HIS WAYS ARE EVERLASTING.
# 7 I SAW THE TENTS OF CUSHAN IN AFFLICTION: AND THE CURTAINS OF THE LAND OF
 MIDIAN DID TREMBLE.
# 8 WAS THE LORD DISPLEASED AGAINST THE RIVERS? WAS THINE ANGER AGAINST THE
 RIVERS? WAS THY WRATH AGAINST THE SEA, THAT THOU DIDST RIDE UPON THINE HORSES
 AND THY CHARIOTS OF SALVATION?
# 9 THY BOW WAS MADE QUITE NAKED, ACCORDING TO THE OATHS OF THE TRIBES, EVEN
 THY WORD. SELAH. THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE EARTH WITH RIVERS.
# 10 THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE, AND THEY TREMBLED: THE OVERFLOWING OF THE WATER
 PASSED BY: THE DEEP UTTERED HIS VOICE, AND LIFTED UP HIS HANDS ON HIGH.
# 11 THE SUN AND MOON STOOD STILL IN THEIR HABITATION: AT THE LIGHT OF THINE
 ARROWS THEY WENT, AND AT THE SHINING OF THY GLITTERING SPEAR.
# 12 THOU DIDST MARCH THROUGH THE LAND IN INDIGNATION, THOU DIDST THRESH THE
 HEATHEN IN ANGER.
# 13 THOU WENTEST FORTH FOR THE SALVATION OF THY PEOPLE, EVEN FOR SALVATION
 WITH THINE ANOINTED; THOU WOUNDEDST THE HEAD OUT OF THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED,
 BY DISCOVERING THE FOUNDATION UNTO THE NECK. SELAH.
# 14 THOU DIDST STRIKE THROUGH WITH HIS STAVES THE HEAD OF HIS VILLAGES: THEY
 CAME OUT AS A WHIRLWIND TO SCATTER ME: THEIR REJOICING WAS AS TO DEVOUR THE
 POOR SECRETLY.
# 15 THOU DIDST WALK THROUGH THE SEA WITH THINE HORSES, THROUGH THE HEAP OF
 GREAT WATERS.
# 16 WHEN I HEARD, MY BELLY TREMBLED; MY LIPS QUIVERED AT THE VOICE:
 ROTTENNESS ENTERED INTO MY BONES, AND I TREMBLED IN MYSELF, THAT I MIGHT REST
 IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE: WHEN HE COMETH UP UNTO THE PEOPLE, HE WILL INVADE THEM
 WITH HIS TROOPS.
# 17 ALTHOUGH THE FIG TREE SHALL NOT BLOSSOM, NEITHER SHALL FRUIT BE IN THE
 VINES; THE LABOUR OF THE OLIVE SHALL FAIL, AND THE FIELDS SHALL YIELD NO
 MEAT; THE FLOCK SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM THE FOLD, AND THERE SHALL BE NO HERD IN
 THE STALLS:
# 18 YET I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD, I WILL JOY IN THE GOD OF MY SALVATION.
# 19 THE LORD GOD IS MY STRENGTH, AND HE WILL MAKE MY FEET LIKE HINDS FEET,
 AND HE WILL MAKE ME TO WALK UPON MINE HIGH PLACES. TO THE CHIEF SINGER ON MY
 STRINGED INSTRUMENTS.
