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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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\mt1 Habakkuk
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\s5
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\c 1
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\p
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\v 1 This is the conversation between Habakkuk the prophet and Yahweh.
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\q1
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\v 2 I said, "Yahweh, how long must I continue to call to you for help before you respond?
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\q1 I cry out, "The people are acting so violently!"
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\q2 but you do not rescue me!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 Why do you make me watch people do what is wrong, but you do nothing?
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\q1 I see people destroying things and acting violently; they fight and quarrel everywhere.
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\q1
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\v 4 No one obeys the law of Moses, and no one acts in a right way for very long.
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\q1 Wicked people always defeat the righteous people in the courts,
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\q2 because judges never make fair decisions."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh replied to me,
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\q1 "This is happening, but look around at what is happening in the other nations.
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\q2 If you look, you will be amazed, and even astonished, since I am doing something
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\q1 during this time that you would never have believed would happen,
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\q2 even if someone told you about it.
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\q1
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\v 6 Very soon I will bring the soldiers of Babylonia, who are fierce and swift.
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\q1 They will march across the entire earth
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\q2 and conquer many other countries.
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\q1
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\v 7 They are a people whom others fear very much,
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\q2 and they do whatever they want to,
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\q2 because they believe that they are very great and that they have the right to judge everyone else.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 The horses that pull their chariots go faster than leopards,
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\q2 and they are fiercer than wolves are in the evening.
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\q1 The horses on which the soldiers ride gallop swiftly;
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\q2 the soldiers riding them come from distant places.
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\q1 They are like eagles that swoop down to snatch their prey.
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\q1
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\v 9 As they ride along,
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\q2 they are determined to act violently.
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\q1 They advance eagerly, as fast as the wind over the desert,
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\q2 and gather up as many prisoners as there are grains of sand!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 They make fun of kings and princes of other countries,
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\q2 and they ridicule all the cities that have high walls around them.
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\q1 They pile up earth around those cities to capture them.
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\q1
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\v 11 They rush past like the wind,
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\q2 and then they go to attack other cities.
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\q1 But they are very guilty,
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\q2 because they think that their own power is their god!"
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 Then I said, "Yahweh, are you not the eternal God?
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\q2 You are my Holy One, so we will not die.
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\q1 So why have you sent those men from Babylonia to judge us and kill us?
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\q2 You are like our Rock, on top of which we can hide,
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\q2 so why have you sent them to punish us?
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 13 You are pure, and you cannot endure looking at what is evil,
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\q2 so why are you ignoring men who are treacherous?
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\q1 Why do you do nothing
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\q2 to punish those wicked men from Babylonia,
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\q2 who destroy people who are more righteous than they are?
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\q1
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\v 14 They treat us like fish in the sea,
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\q2 or like other creatures in the sea, that have no ruler.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 15 The soldiers of Babylonia think that we are fish for them to pull out of the sea with hooks
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\q2 or to catch in their nets, while they rejoice and celebrate.
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\q1
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\v 16 If they catch us, they will worship their weapons with which they captured us
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\q2 and offer sacrifices to them and burn incense in front of them!
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\q1 They will say, 'These weapons have enabled us to become rich and eat expensive food.'
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\q1
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\v 17 Will you allow them to continue to conquer people forever?
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\q2 Will you allow them to destroy people of other nations without any mercy for anyone?"
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\s5
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\c 2
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\q1
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\v 1 After I said that, I said to myself, "I will climb up into my guard post,
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\q2 and stand there in my watchtower.
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\q1 I will wait there to find out what Yahweh will say,
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\q2 what he will reply and how I should answer."
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\s5
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\p
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\v 2 Then Yahweh replied to me,
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\q1 "Write plainly on tablets what I am revealing to you in this vision,
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\q2 and then read it to a messenger
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\q2 so he can run with it to tell it to other people.
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\q1
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\v 3 In this vision I will talk about things that will happen in the future.
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\q1 Now is not the time when those things will happen,
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\q2 but they certainly will happen,
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\q2 and when they occur, they will occur quickly,
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\q2 and they will not be delayed.
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\q1 You want those things to happen immediately, but they are not happening.
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\q2 But wait patiently for them to happen!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 Think about the proud people!
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\q2 They are certainly not doing what is righteous.
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\q1 But people who are righteous will live
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\q2 because they faithfully do what I want them to do.
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\q1
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\v 5 If people live for excess such as wine, they will deceive themselves,
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\q2 and proud people are never able to rest.
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\q1 Greedy people open their mouths as wide as the place where dead people are,
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\q1 and they never have enough,
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\q2 just like the place of the dead never has enough dead people.
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\q1 The armies of Babylonia conquer many nations for themselves,
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\q2 and capture all their people.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 But soon all those whom they have captured will ridicule the soldiers from Babylonia!
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\q1 They will make fun of them, saying,
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\q2 'Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things from other countries!
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\q1 You got many things by forcing people to give them to you.
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\q2 But you certainly will not keep those things for long!'
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\q1
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\v 7 Suddenly those whom you forced to be unjustly indebted to you will rise up
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\q2 and cause you to tremble,
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\q2 and they will take away all the things that you have stolen from them.
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\q1
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\v 8 You stole things from the people of many nations.
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\q1 You murdered people of many people groups,
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\q2 and you destroyed their land and their cities.
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\q1 So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 9 Terrible things will happen to you people of Babylonia who build big houses
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\q2 with money that you got by forcing others to give it to you.
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\q1 You are proud, and you think that your houses will be safe
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\q2 because you have built them in places where you can easily defend them.
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\q1
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\v 10 But because you have destroyed others,
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\q2 you have caused your family
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\q2 and yourselves shame!
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\q1
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\v 11 The stones in the walls of your houses cry out to accuse you,
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\q2 and the beams in your ceilings also say the same things!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 Terrible things will happen to you people of Babylonia who kill people in order to build cities,
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\q2 cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
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\q1
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\v 13 But Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that will be destroyed by fire;
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\q2 they will have worked hard uselessly.
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\q1
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\v 14 But in contrast, like the oceans are filled with water,
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\q2 the earth will be filled with people who know that Yahweh is very great!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 15 Terrible things will happen to you people of Babylonia,
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\q2 who cause people who live in nearby countries to become drunk.
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\q1 You force them to drink a lot of drugged wine
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\q2 until they are drunk and then they walk around naked
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\q2 because you are happy when you see that.
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\q1
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\v 16 But you are the ones who soon will be disgraced instead of being honored.
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\q2 It will be as though you are forced to drink a lot of wine until you will also stagger around, drunk.
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\q1 You will drink the wine that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you,
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\q2 and he will cause others to dishonor you instead of honoring you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 17 You did violent things to the people in Lebanon,
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\q2 and you killed the wild animals there,
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\q1 but you will be punished severely for doing that.
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\q1 You have killed many people
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\q2 and you have destroyed their lands and their cities.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 18 You people of Babylonia need to know that your idols are completely useless,
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\q2 because it is people who made them.
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\q1 Statues that have been carved or made in a mold deceive you.
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\q2 Those who trust in idols
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\q2 are trusting in things that they themselves created,
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\q1 things that cannot speak!
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\q1
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\v 19 Terrible things will happen to you who say to lifeless idols that are made of wood,
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\q2 'Wake up!'
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\q1 Stone idols certainly cannot tell you what you should do;
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\q2 they look nice because they are covered with silver and gold,
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\q2 but they are not alive.
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\q1
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\v 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple;
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\q2 everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence!"
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\s5
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\c 3
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\m
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\v 1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet.
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\v 2 Yahweh, I have heard about you;
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\q1 and I revere you because of all the amazing things that you have done.
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\q2 In our time, do again some of those things that you did long ago!
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\q1 Even when you are angry with us,
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\q2 act mercifully toward us!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 In a vision, I saw God, the Holy One, coming from the region of Teman in Edom;
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\q2 I also saw him coming from the Paran hills in the region of Sinai.
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\q1 His glory filled the sky,
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\q2 and the earth was full of people who were praising him.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 His glory was like the sunrise;
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\q2 rays flashed from his hands
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\q2 where he keeps his power.
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\q1
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\v 5 He sent plagues in front of him,
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\q2 and other plagues came behind him.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 When he stopped, the earth shook.
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\q2 When he looked at the nations,
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\q1 all the people trembled.
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\q2 The hills and mountains that have existed since the beginning of time collapsed and crumbled.
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\q2 He is the only one who exists eternally!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 In the vision I saw the people who live in tents in the region of Cushan were very afraid,
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\q2 and the people in the region of Midian were trembling.
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\v 8 Yahweh, was it because you were angry with the rivers and streams that you struck them?
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\q2 Did the seas cause you to be furious,
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\q1 with the result that you rode through them with horses that were pulling chariots
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\q2 that you used to bring victory to your cause?
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\v 9 It was as though you uncovered your bow and prepared to shoot it,
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\q2 and had grasped arrows to put to your bow.
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\q1 Then you split open the earth,
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\q2 and streams burst out.
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\v 10 It is as though the mountains saw you doing that,
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\q2 and they trembled in pain.
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\q1 The water rushed by in floods;
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\q2 it was as though the deep ocean roared and caused its waves to rise up high.
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\s5
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\v 11 The sun and moon stopped moving in the sky,
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\q2 while your lightning flashed past like a swift arrow,
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\q2 and your glittering spear flashed.
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\v 12 Being very angry, you walked across the earth
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\q2 and trampled the armies of many nations!
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\s5
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\v 13 But you also went to rescue your people,
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\q2 and to save the one whom you have chosen.
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\q1 You struck down the leader of those wicked people
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\q2 and took away all his power completely.
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\s5
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\v 14 With his own spear you destroyed the leader of those soldiers who rushed like a whirlwind to attack and scatter us,
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\q2 thinking that they could conquer us as easily as they defeat the weak people who hide from them.
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\q1
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\v 15 You walked through the sea with your horses to destroy our enemies,
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\q2 and caused the waves to surge.
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\s5
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\v 16 When I saw that vision,
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\q2 my heart pounded
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\q1 and my lips quivered
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\q2 because I became afraid.
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\q1 My legs became weak
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\q2 and I shook, because I was terrified.
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\q1 But I will wait quietly for the people of Babylonia, those who invaded our country, to experience disasters!
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\s5
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\v 17 Therefore,
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\q1 even if there are no blossoms on the fig trees,
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\q2 and there are no grapes on the grapevines,
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\q1 and even if there are no olives growing on the olive trees,
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\q2 and there are no crops in the fields,
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\q1 and even if the flocks of sheep and goats die in the fields,
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\q2 and there are no cattle in the stalls, this is what I will do.
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\v 18 I will rejoice because of Yahweh!
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\q2 I will be joyful because my God is the one who saves me!
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\v 19 Yahweh the Lord is the one who gives me strength,
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\q2 and he enables me to climb safely like a deer does,
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\q2 he makes me walk on my high hills.
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\q (This message is for the choir director:
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\q2 When this prayer is sung, it is to be accompanied by people playing stringed instruments.)
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