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Habakkuk Chapter 1 (Passion Bible)

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¹ This is the vision of Habakkuk the prophet:

² Yahweh, how long must I cry for help and you turn a deaf ear? My heart cries out, “Save us from this brutality!” but you do not save.

³ Why do you make me stare at injustice? Why do you tolerate such trouble and wrongdoing? Destruction and violence surround me; strife and conflict are everywhere.

⁴ Therefore, the law is not enforced, and so justice never prevails. The wicked overwhelm the righteous so that justice is perverted. Yahweh’s Answer

⁵ “Look at the nations and observe— you’ll be stunned by what you see. For while you watch, I am about to do something so surprising in your days that you would not believe it even if you were told.

⁶ I am raising up the Babylonians to punish you — that fierce and fearsome people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize houses they do not own.

⁷ They are a feared and dreaded people. In their autocratic arrogance, they become a law unto themselves.

⁸ Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves on the prowl at dusk. Their cavalry charges headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They soar swiftly like an eagle swooping to devour.

⁹ Their armies invade, intent on violent conquest. Their terrifying hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners as numerous as grains of sand.

¹⁰ They are a people who mock kings and scoff at those in authority. They laugh at every stronghold; they pile up earthen siege ramps and capture them.

¹¹ Then they hurry on, like the wind that blows by and disappears. They are guilty men who worship their own power as if it were a god.” Habakkuk’s Second Question

¹² Yahweh, have you not always been the everlasting God? You are my God, my Holy One, who will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed the Babylonians to execute judgment; my Rock, you have raised them up so they can punish us.

¹³ Your eyes are so pure that you cannot stand the sight of evil; nor do you look on wickedness with favor. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you so silent while sinners devour those more righteous than themselves?

¹⁴ Have you only made us like fish, to be caught and killed by the wicked; like swarming schools of fish with no ruler?

¹⁵ Then the Babylonians pull them up with fishhooks and drag them in with their nets. Gleefully, they gather them up in their dragnets, shouting for joy over their catch.

¹⁶ They even offer sacrifices and burn incense in honor of their nets, as if these were gods. For their nets enable them to live luxuriously and eat the finest food.

¹⁷ How long will you allow them to fill and empty their throw nets? Will they forever destroy nations without mercy?

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1	This is the vision of Habakkuk the prophet:
2	Yahweh, how long must I cry for help and you turn a deaf ear? My heart cries out, “Save us from this brutality!” but you do not save.
3	Why do you make me stare at injustice? Why do you tolerate such trouble and wrongdoing? Destruction and violence surround me; strife and conflict are everywhere.
4	Therefore, the law is not enforced, and so justice never prevails. The wicked overwhelm the righteous so that justice is perverted. Yahweh’s Answer
5	“Look at the nations and observe— you’ll be stunned by what you see. For while you watch, I am about to do something so surprising in your days that you would not believe it even if you were told.
6	I am raising up the Babylonians to punish you — that fierce and fearsome people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize houses they do not own.
7	They are a feared and dreaded people. In their autocratic arrogance, they become a law unto themselves.
8	Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves on the prowl at dusk. Their cavalry charges headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They soar swiftly like an eagle swooping to devour.
9	Their armies invade, intent on violent conquest. Their terrifying hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners as numerous as grains of sand.
10	They are a people who mock kings and scoff at those in authority. They laugh at every stronghold; they pile up earthen siege ramps and capture them.
11	Then they hurry on, like the wind that blows by and disappears. They are guilty men who worship their own power as if it were a god.” Habakkuk’s Second Question
12	Yahweh, have you not always been the everlasting God? You are my God, my Holy One, who will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed the Babylonians to execute judgment; my Rock, you have raised them up so they can punish us.
13	Your eyes are so pure that you cannot stand the sight of evil; nor do you look on wickedness with favor. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you so silent while sinners devour those more righteous than themselves?
14	Have you only made us like fish, to be caught and killed by the wicked; like swarming schools of fish with no ruler?
15	Then the Babylonians pull them up with fishhooks and drag them in with their nets. Gleefully, they gather them up in their dragnets, shouting for joy over their catch.
16	They even offer sacrifices and burn incense in honor of their nets, as if these were gods. For their nets enable them to live luxuriously and eat the finest food.
17	How long will you allow them to fill and empty their throw nets? Will they forever destroy nations without mercy?

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