Habakkuk · King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Habakkuk 1 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!
2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
3 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.
3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
5 ¶ 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].
5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.
6 For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their 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 [that] hasteth to eat.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
10 And 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.
10 Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.
11 Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, [imputing] this his power unto his god.
11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
12 ¶ [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
12 Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
13 [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?
13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?
14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15 They 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.
15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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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