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\id HAB Unlocked Literal Bible
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\h Habakkuk
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\toc1 The Book of Habakkuk
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\toc2 Habakkuk
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\toc3 Hab
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\mt Habakkuk
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\s5
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\c 1
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
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\p
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\q
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\v 2 "Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear?
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\q I have cried out to you in horror, 'Violence!' but you will not save me!
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\q
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\s5
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\v 3 Why do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing?
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\q Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up!
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\q
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\v 4 Therefore the law is weakened, and justice does not last for any time.
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\q For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out."
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\p
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\sp Yahweh replies to Habakkuk
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\q
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\s5
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\v 5 "Look at the nations and examine them; be amazed and astonished!
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\q For I am surely about to do something in your days that you will not believe when it is reported to you.
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\q
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\v 6 For look! I am about to raise up the Chaldeans—that fierce and impetuous nation—
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\q they are marching throughout the breadth of the land to seize homes that were not their own.
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\q
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\v 7 They are terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from themselves!
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\q
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\s5
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\v 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, quicker than the evening wolves!
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\q So their horses stamp,
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\q and their horsemen come from a great distance—they fly like an eagle hurrying to eat!
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\q
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\v 9 They all come for violence,
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\q their multitudes go like a desert wind, and they gather captives like sand!
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\q
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\s5
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\v 10 So they mock kings, and rulers are only a mockery for them!
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\q They laugh at every stronghold, for they heap up earth and take them!
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\q
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\v 11 Then the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might is their god!"
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\p
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\sp Habakkuk asks Yahweh another question
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\q
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\s5
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\v 12 "Are you not from ancient times, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die.
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\q Yahweh has ordained them for judgment, and you, Rock, have established them for correction!
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\q
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\s5
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\v 13 Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil, and you are not able to look on wrongdoing with favor;
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\q why then have you looked favorably on those who betray?
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\q Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they are?
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\q
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\v 14 You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them.
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\q
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\s5
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\v 15 They bring up all of them with fishhooks; they drag men away in fishnets
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\q and gather them in their net. This is why they rejoice and shout exuberantly!
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\q
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\v 16 Therefore they sacrifice to their fishing nets and burn incense to their net,
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\q for fattened beasts are their portion, and the fatty meat is their food!
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\q
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\v 17 Will they therefore empty their fishing nets and continue to slaughter the nations, feeling no compassion?"
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\s5
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\c 2
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the watchtower, and I will watch carefully
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\q to see what he will say to me and how I should turn from my complaint.
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\q
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\s5
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\v 2 Yahweh answered me and said,
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\q "Record this vision, and write plainly upon the tablets so that the one reading them might run!
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\q
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\v 3 For the vision is yet for a future time and will finally speak and not fail.
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\q Though it delays, wait for it! For it will surely come and will not tarry!
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\q
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\s5
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\v 4 Look! The one whose desires are not right within him is puffed up. But the righteous will live by his faith.
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\p
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\q
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\v 5 For wine is a betrayer of the arrogant young man so that he will not abide,
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\q but enlarges his desire like the grave and, like death, is never satisfied.
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\q He gathers to himself every nation and gathers up for himself all of the peoples.
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\q
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\s5
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\v 6 Will not all these create a saying to ridicule him and a taunting song about him, saying,
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\q 'Woe to the one increasing what is not his! For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?'
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\q2
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\v 7 Will the ones gnashing at you not rise up suddenly, and the ones terrifying you awaken?
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\q2 You will become a victim for them!
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\q2
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\v 8 Because you have plundered many peoples, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you.
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\q2 For you have shed human blood and acted with violence against the land, the cities, and all who live in them.
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\p
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\q
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\s5
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\v 9 'Woe to the one who carves out evil gains for his house,
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\q2 so he can set his nest on high to keep himself safe from the hand of evil!'
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\q2
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\v 10 You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against yourself.
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\q2
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\v 11 For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters of timber will answer them,
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\p
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\q
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\s5
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\v 12 'Woe to the one who builds a city with blood, and who establishes a town in iniquity!'
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\q2
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\v 13 Is it not from Yahweh of hosts
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\q2 that peoples labor for fire and all the other nations weary themselves for nothing?
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\q2
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\v 14 Yet the land will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea.
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\p
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\q
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\s5
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\v 15 'Woe to the one making his neighbor drink, you who add your poison until you make them drunk
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\q2 so you can look on their nakedness!'
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\q2
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\v 16 You will be gorged with shame rather than glory! Drink of it also, and reveal your own nakedness!
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\q2 The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come in its turn to you, and disgrace will cover your honor.
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\q2
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\s5
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\v 17 The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you and the destruction of animals will terrify you.
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\q2 For you have shed human blood and you have acted with violence against the land, the cities, and all who live in them.
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\p
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\q
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\s5
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\v 18 What does the carved figure profit you? For the one who has carved it, or who casts a figure from molten metal, is a teacher of lies;
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\q for he trusts his own handiwork when he makes these mute gods.
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\q
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\v 19 'Woe to the one saying to the wood, Wake up! Or to the silent stone, Arise!' Do these things teach?
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\q See, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all within it.
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\q
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\v 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple! Be silent before him, all the land!"
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\s5
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\c 3
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\p
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\v 1 The prayer of Habakkuk the prophet:
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\f + \ft The Hebrew text adds the expression "on shigionoth," which may refer to musical directions for singers. \f*
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\q
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\v 2 Yahweh, I have heard your report, and I am afraid!
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\q Yahweh, revive your work in the midst of these times; in the midst of these times make it known;
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\q remember to have compassion in your wrath!
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\p
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\q
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\s5
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\v 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran! \qs Selah. \qs*
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\q His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
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\q
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\s5
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\v 4 The two rays of his hand were as bright as lightning,
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\q where his strength was hidden.
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\q
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\v 5 Deadly disease went before him, and plague went after his feet.
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\q
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\s5
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\v 6 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations!
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\q Even the eternal mountains were shattered, and the everlasting hills bowed down!
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\q His path is everlasting!
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\q
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\s5
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\v 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the fabric of the tents in the land of Midian trembling.
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\q
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\v 8 Was Yahweh angry at the rivers? Was your wrath against the rivers,
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\q or your fury against the sea,
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\q when you rode upon your horses and your victorious chariots?
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\q
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\s5
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\v 9 You have brought out your bow without a cover; you put arrows to your bow! \qs Selah. \qs*
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\q You divided the earth with rivers.
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\q
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\v 10 The mountains saw you and twisted in pain!
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\q Downpours of water passed over them; the deep sea raised a shout!
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\q It lifted up its waves!
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\q
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\s5
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\v 11 The sun and moon stood still above in their high places
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\q at the light of your arrows and they flew, at the brightness of the lightning flash of your spear!
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\q
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\v 12 You have marched over the earth with indignation. In wrath you have threshed the nations.
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\q
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\s5
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\v 13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed one!
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\q You shatter the head of the house of the wicked to expose the base of the neck! \qs Selah. \qs*
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\q
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\s5
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\v 14 You have pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows since they came like a storm to scatter us,
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\q their gloating was like one who devours the poor in a hiding place.
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\q
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\v 15 You have traveled over the sea with your horses, and heaped up the great waters.
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\b
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\p
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\q
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\s5
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\v 16 I heard, and my inner parts trembled! My lips quivered at the sound!
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\q Decay comes into my bones, and under myself I tremble
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\q as I wait quietly for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
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\q2
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\s5
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\v 17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no produce from the vines;
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\q2 though the produce of the olive tree disappoints, and the fields yield no food;
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\q2 though the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no cattle in the stalls—
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\q
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\s5
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\v 18 Still, I will rejoice in Yahweh! I will be happy because the God of my salvation!
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\q
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\v 19 The Lord Yahweh is my strength
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\q and he makes my feet like the deer's;
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\q he leads me on my high places!
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\q3
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—To the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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