Habakkuk 1

1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. 2O Yahuah, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! cry out unto you violence, and you will not save! 3Why dost you shew me iniquity, and cause to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence before me: and there are raise up strife and contention. 4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. 5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for will work a work in your days, ye will not believe, though it be told . 6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces not theirs. 7They terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8Their 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 hasteth to eat. 9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. 10And 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. 11Then shall mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, this his power unto his god. 12you not from everlasting, O Yahuah my Elohim, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Yahuah, you hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty Elohim, you hast established them for correction. 13of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: therefore lookest you upon them that deal treacherously, holdest your tongue when the wicked devoureth more righteous than he? 14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, no ruler over them? 15They 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. 16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion fat, and their meat plenteous. 17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?