Habakkuk · Bible in Basic English
Habakkuk 1 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Habakkuk is not in PT1904.
1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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2 How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
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3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
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4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
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5 See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.
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6 For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
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7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
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8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
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9 They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
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10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
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11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
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12 Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
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13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
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14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
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15 He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
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16 For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
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17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
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Habakkuk
The prophet who received the burden of his book in a vision.
Cited in the guide: Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 3:1
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Nahum 1:1; Isaiah 22:1
- 2 Psalm 22:1–2; Psalm 13:1–2; Lamentations 3:8; Jeremiah 14:9; Psalm 94:3
- 3 Psalm 55:9–11; Jeremiah 9:2–6; Micah 7:1–4; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Jeremiah 20:8
- 4 Psalm 94:20–21; Isaiah 1:21–23; Psalm 119:126; Job 21:7; Ezekiel 9:9
- 5 Acts 13:40–41; Isaiah 29:14; Lamentations 4:12; Jeremiah 5:12–13; Jeremiah 9:25–26
- 6 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Chronicles 36:6; Jeremiah 5:15; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Jeremiah 4:6
- 7 Jeremiah 39:5–9; Jeremiah 52:9–11; Isaiah 18:7; Deuteronomy 5:27; Deuteronomy 5:19
- 8 Jeremiah 4:13; Zephaniah 3:3; Deuteronomy 28:49; Hosea 8:1; Ezekiel 17:3
- 9 Jeremiah 25:9; Psalm 139:18; Job 29:18; Habakkuk 2:5–13; Judges 7:12
- 10 2 Chronicles 36:6; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 32:24; Isaiah 14:16; Jeremiah 33:4
- 11 Daniel 5:20; Daniel 4:30–34; Daniel 5:3–4; Jeremiah 4:11–12
- 12 Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 90:2; Deuteronomy 33:27; Jeremiah 46:28; Jeremiah 30:11
- 13 Psalm 5:4–5; Psalm 34:15–16; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Habakkuk 1:3–4; Proverbs 31:8–9
- 15 Amos 4:2; Jeremiah 16:16; Psalm 10:9; John 21:6–11; Ezekiel 35:15
- 16 Daniel 4:30; Habakkuk 1:11; Ezekiel 28:3; Deuteronomy 8:17; Isaiah 37:24
- 17 Isaiah 14:6; Jeremiah 25:9–26; Ezekiel 25:1–17; Jeremiah 52:1–34; Habakkuk 2:17
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences