The Book of Habakkuk of the Christian Holy Bible

Habakkuk 1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.  

Habakkuk 1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not  hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt  not save! 

Habakkuk 1:3 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. 

Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and  judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass  about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.  

Habakkuk 1:5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and  wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days,  which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 

Habakkuk 1:6  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty  nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to  possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. 

Habakkuk 1:7 They  are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity  shall proceed of themselves. 

Habakkuk 1:8 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. 

Habakkuk 1:9 They shall  come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east  wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. 

Habakkuk 1:10  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. 

Habakkuk 1:11 Then shall his  mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing  this his power unto his god.  

Habakkuk 1:12 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. 

Habakkuk 1:13 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? 

Habakkuk 1:14 And makest  men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that  have no ruler over them? 

Habakkuk 1:15 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. 

Habakkuk 1:16  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense  unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and  their meat plenteous. 

Habakkuk 1:17 Shall they therefore empty  their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?  

Habakkuk 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. 

Habakkuk 2:2 And the  LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make  it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 

Habakkuk 2:3  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. 

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul  which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall  live by his faith.  

Habakkuk 2:5 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: 

Habakkuk 2:6 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! 

Habakkuk 2:7 Shall they not  rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall  vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 

Habakkuk 2:8  Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of  the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and  for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that  dwell therein.   

Habakkuk 2:9 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! 

Habakkuk 2:10 Thou hast  consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people,  and hast sinned against thy soul. 

Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone shall  cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall  answer it.  

Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and  stablisheth a city by iniquity! 

Habakkuk 2:13 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?  

Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of  the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.  

Habakkuk 2:15 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! 

Habakkuk 2:16 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 unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be  on thy glory. 

Habakkuk 2:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall  cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, 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.  

Habakkuk 2:18 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? 

Habakkuk 2:19 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. 

Habakkuk 2:20 But the LORD is in his holy  temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.  

Habakkuk 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.  

Habakkuk 3:2 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.  

Habakkuk 3:3 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. 

Habakkuk 3:4 And his brightness was  as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and  there was the hiding of his power. 

Habakkuk 3:5 Before him went  the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.  

Habakkuk 3:6 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. 

Habakkuk 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction:  and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 

Habakkuk 3:8  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? 

Habakkuk 3:9 Thy bow was made quite naked,  according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word.  Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 

Habakkuk 3:10 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. 

Habakkuk 3:11 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.   

Habakkuk 3:12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation,  thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 

Habakkuk 3:13 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. 

Habakkuk 3:14 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. 

Habakkuk 3:15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine  horses, through the heap of great waters. 

Habakkuk 3:16 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.  

Habakkuk 3:17 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:  

Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God  of my salvation. 

Habakkuk 3:19 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.

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