Habakkuk
| Author: Habakkuk (1:1).Time of His Ministry: About 626 B.C., close to the time of the Babylonian invasion and the first exile to Babylon (605 B.C.).Place of His Ministry: The southern kingdom of Judah.Object of His Ministry: The southern kingdom of Judah. |
And You doI cry out to You, Violence!anot hear?
And You do not save.Hab 1:3 - Why do You cause me to see iniquity
And look upon wrong?Indeed destruction and violence are before me;
And there is strife, and contention arises.Hab 1:4 - Therefore the law is ineffective,
And justice never goes forth;For the wicked encompasses the righteous,
Therefore justice goes forth perverted.Hab 1:5 - Look among the nations, and see,
And beFor I am doing a work in your daysaamazed, utterly amazed.
Which you would not believe if it were told you.Hab 1:6 - For I am about to raise up the
That bitter and hasty nationThat marches through the breadth of the earth
To possess habitations that are notHab 1:7 - They are terrible and dreadful;1theirs.
Their judgment and their authority issue from themselves.Hab 1:8 - And their horses are swifter than leopards
And more agile than the wolves of evening.And their horsemen prance about;
Indeed their horsemen come fromThey fly like anaafar;
The set of their faces is forward,And they gather captives like sand.
And potentates are a derision to them;They deride every fortress,
For they heap up dirt and take it.Hab 1:11 - Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass over
And thus become guilty; this—their strength—is their god.
My God, my Holy One? We will not die.O Jehovah, You have appointed
And You, O Rock, have establishedHab 1:13 - You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil1them for correction.
And who cannot look upon wrong,Why do You
And keep silent when the wicked man swallows up him who isrighteous than he?1more
Like the creeping things, who have no one to rule for them.Hab 1:15 - They take all of them up with a
They drag them off in their netAnd gather them into their seine;
So they rejoice and exult.Hab 1:16 - Therefore they offer
And burn incense to their seine,For by them their portion is fat
And their food is plenteous.Hab 1:17 - Will they then empty their net
And continually slay the nations without sparing?
And station myself on the fortress,And I will watch to see what He will
And what I will reply concerning my complaint.Hab 2:2 - Then Jehovah answered and said,
aWrite the1vision, and render it plainly upon tablets,
And it hastens toward the end and will not lie.Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will surelyHab 2:4 - See, he who is puffed up, his soul is not upright within him,bcome; it will not delay.
Hab 2:5 - Furthermore his wine is treacherous:1Butathe righteous one will2live by his faith.
A boasting man, he does not abide at home,He who enlarges his appetite like
And is like death and cannot be satisfied,But gathers to himself all the nations
And collects for himself all the peoples.Hab 2:6 - Will not all of these take up a parable against him,
Indeed a mocking song and a riddle against him, and say,Woe to him who increases what is not his (For how long?)
And who loads himself with the burden of pledges?Hab 2:7 - Will not those who bite you rise up suddenly,
And those who shake you awake,And you will become booty to them?
All the remnant of the peoples willBecause of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land,1plunder you,
To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it.Hab 2:9 - Woe to him who by violence takes evil gain for his house,
So as to place his nest on highThat he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
By cutting off many peoples,And have sinned against your own soul.
And the rafter will answer from the timber.Hab 2:12 -
And establishes a town by iniquity!Hab 2:13 - Indeed is it not of Jehovah of hosts
That the peoples toil for theAnd the nations weary themselves for vanity?afire
With the knowledge of the glory of JehovahAs water covers the sea.
Adding inAnd also making him drunk1his poison,
In order to look at their nakedness!Hab 2:16 - You are sated with shame, not glory.
You also, drink and be shown to be uncircumcised!The
And disgrace will be upon your glory.Hab 2:17 - For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you,
As well as the destruction of the beasts which frightened them,Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land,
To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it.Hab 2:18 - What profit is the graven
Or the molten idol, even the teacher of lies,That he who forms its form depends on it
To make dumb idols?Hab 2:19 - Woe to him who says to wood, Awake!
And, Arise! to silent stone.Will it teach him?
Behold, it is set in gold and silver,And there is no breath at all within it.
Bebsilent before Him, all the earth!
O Jehovah,In the midst of the years;1arevive Your work
In the midst of the years make it known;In wrath remember compassion.
Even theHis splendor covers the heavens,aHoly One from Mount Paran.1Selah
And the earth is filled with His praise.Hab 3:4 - And His brightness is like the light:
Rays come forth from His hand,And the hiding of His power is there.
And theHab 3:6 - He stands andafire bolt comes forth at His feet.
He looks and startles the nations;And the ancient mountains are
And the everlasting hills sink down;His goings are eternal.
Under affliction;The tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble.
Against the rivers that Your anger is kindled?Is Your overflowing wrath against the sea
That YouUpon Your chariots of salvation?aride upon Your horses,
The rods of discipline are sworn according to Your word. SelahYou cleave the earth with rivers.
The tempest of water passes by;The deep utters its voice,
It lifts its hands high.Hab 3:11 - The sun and the moon stand
At the light of Your arrows going forth,At the brightness of Your glittering spear.
In anger YouHab 3:13 - You go forth for theathresh the nations.
For the salvation of Your anointed one,You strike the head from the house of the wicked one,
Laying bare the foundation, even to the neck. SelahHab 3:14 - You pierce, with his own staves,
The heads of his warriors.They come out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their exultation is as if to devour the poor in secret.Hab 3:15 - You tread the sea with Your horses,
The heap of mighty waters.Hab 3:16 - I heard and my body trembled;
My lips quivered at the sound.Rottenness entered my bones,
And I tremble in my place,Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,
WhenHab 3:17 - For the fig tree will not sprout,1he who attacks comes up against the people.
And there will be no yield on the vines;The labor on the olive tree will fail,
And the fields will make no food;The flock will be cut off from the fold,
And there will be no herd in the stalls.Hab 3:18 - Yet I will
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.Hab 3:19 - Jehovah the Lord is my
And He makes my feet likeAnd will cause me to walk on mybhinds’ feet
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