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{\MT Habakkuk


\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

\VS{2}O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!
{\ADD{even}} cry out to thee
{\ADD{of}} violence, and thou wilt not save!

\VS{3}Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause
{\ADD{me}} to behold grievance? for devastation and violence
{\ADD{are}} before me: and there are
{\ADD{that}} raise strife and contention.

\VS{4}Therefore the law is slackened, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth encompass the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

\VS{5}Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for
{\ADD{I}} will work a work in your days,
{\ADD{which}} ye will not believe though it be told
{\ADD{you}} .

\VS{6}For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans,
{\ADD{that}} bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places
{\ADD{that are}} not theirs.

\VS{7}They
{\ADD{are}} terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.

\VS{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
{\ADD{that}} hasteth to eat.

\VS{9}They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up
{\ADD{as}} the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

\VS{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.

\VS{11}Then shall
{\ADD{his}} mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend,
{\ADD{imputing}} this his power to his god.

\VS{12}{\ADD{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.

\VS{13}{\ADD{Thou art}} of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously,
{\ADD{and}} keepest silence when the wicked devoureth
{\ADD{the man that is}} more righteous than he?

\VS{14}And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals
{\ADD{that have}} no ruler over them?

\VS{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.

\VS{16}Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion
{\ADD{is}} fat, and their food plenteous.

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



\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I will stand upon my watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

\VS{2}And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make
{\ADD{it}} plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

\VS{3}For the vision
{\ADD{is}} yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

\VS{4}Behold, his soul
{\ADD{which}} is lifted up, is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

\VS{5}Yes also, because he transgresseth by wine,
{\ADD{he is}} a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire, as hell, and
{\ADD{is}} as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and collecteth to him all people:

\VS{6}Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth
{\ADD{that which is}} not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

\VS{7}Shall they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall disturb thee, and thou shalt be for booties to them?

\VS{8}Because thou hast laid waste many nations, all the remnant of the people shall lay thee waste; because of men's blood, and
{\ADD{for}} the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

\VS{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!

\VS{10}Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned
{\ADD{against}} thy soul.

\VS{11}For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

\VS{12}Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

\VS{13}Behold,
{\ADD{is it}} not from the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

\VS{14}For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

\VS{15}Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to
{\ADD{him}} , and makest
{\ADD{him}} drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

\VS{16}Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and shameful vomiting
{\ADD{shall be}} on thy glory.

\VS{17}For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts,
{\ADD{which}} made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

\VS{18}What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

\VS{19}Woe to him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it
{\ADD{is}} laid over with gold and silver, and
{\ADD{there is}} no breath at all in the midst of it.

\VS{20}But the LORD
{\ADD{is}} in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.



\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

\VS{2}O LORD, I have heard thy speech,
{\ADD{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.

\VS{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.

\VS{4}And
{\ADD{his}} brightness was as the light; he had horns
{\ADD{coming}} out of his hand; and there
{\ADD{was}} the hiding of his power.

\VS{5}Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

\VS{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
{\ADD{are}} everlasting.

\VS{7}I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction:
{\ADD{and}} the curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

\VS{8}Was the LORD displeased against the rivers?
{\ADD{was}} thy anger against the rivers?
{\ADD{was}} thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thy horses,
{\ADD{and}} thy chariots of salvation?

\VS{9}Thy bow was made quite naked,
{\ADD{according}} to the oaths of the tribes,
{\ADD{even thy}} word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

\VS{10}The mountains saw thee,
{\ADD{and}} they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice,
{\ADD{and}} lifted up his hands on high.

\VS{11}The sun
{\ADD{and}} moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thy arrows they went,
{\ADD{and}} at the shining of thy glittering spear.

\VS{12}Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

\VS{13}Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,
{\ADD{even}} for salvation with thy anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by uncovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.

\VS{14}Thou didst strike through with his staffs the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing
{\ADD{was}} as to devour the poor secretly.

\VS{15}Thou didst walk through the sea with thy horses,
{\ADD{through}} the mire of great waters.

\VS{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 to the people, he will invade them with his troops.

\VS{17}Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither
{\ADD{shall}} fruit
{\ADD{be}} in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and
{\ADD{there shall be}} no herd in the stalls:

\VS{18}Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

\VS{19}The Lord GOD
{\ADD{is}} my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds'
{\ADD{feet}} , and he will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.


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