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\v 1 The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
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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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\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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\sp Yahweh replies to Habakkuk
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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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\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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\v 7 They are terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from themselves.
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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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\v 9 They all come for violence;
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\q their multitudes go like the desert wind, and they gather captives like sand.
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\f + \ft The Hebrew text translated here as \fqa their multitudes go like the desert wind \fqa* is very difficult; many modern versions have other interpretations. \f*
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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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\v 11 Then the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might is their god."
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\sp Habakkuk asks Yahweh another question
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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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\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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\v 14 You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them.
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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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\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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\v 17 Will they therefore empty their fishing nets and continue to slaughter the nations, feeling no compassion?"
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