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HAB 1:1
Habakkuk 1:1
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. |
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HAB 1:2
Habakkuk 1:2
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O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt
not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! |
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HAB 1:3
Habakkuk 1:3
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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. |
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HAB 1:4
Habakkuk 1:4
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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth
never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth. |
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HAB 1:5
Habakkuk 1:5
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Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and
wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe,
though it be told you. |
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HAB 1:6
Habakkuk 1:6
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For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter
and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess
the dwellingplaces that are not their's. |
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HAB 1:7
Habakkuk 1:7
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They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment
and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. |
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HAB 1:8
Habakkuk 1:8
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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. |
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HAB 1:9
Habakkuk 1:9
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They shall come all for violence: their faces
shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. |
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HAB 1:10
Habakkuk 1:10
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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. |
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HAB 1:11
Habakkuk 1:11
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Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass
over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. |
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HAB 1:12
Habakkuk 1:12
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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. |
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HAB 1:13
Habakkuk 1:13
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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? |
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HAB 1:14
Habakkuk 1:14
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And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as
the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? |
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HAB 1:15
Habakkuk 1:15
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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. |
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HAB 1:16
Habakkuk 1:16
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Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and
burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their
meat plenteous. |
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HAB 1:17
Habakkuk 1:17
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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not
spare continually to slay the nations? |
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