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HABAKKUK
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
- O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!
- Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
- 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.
- Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
- For the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
- Therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
- 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.
- 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.
- They are terrible and dreadful:
- Their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
- Their horses also are swifter than the leopards,
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