Habakkuk · Unlocked Literal Bible
Habakkuk 1 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 “Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear? I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you will 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 do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up.
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 weakened, and justice does not last for any time. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out.”
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
5 “Look at the nations and examine them; be amazed and astonished! For I am surely about to do something in your days that you will not believe when it is reported to 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 look! I am about to raise up the Chaldeans—that fierce and impetuous nation— they are marching throughout the breadth of the land to seize homes that were not their own.
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 terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from themselves.
7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, quicker than the evening wolves. So their horses stamp, and their horsemen come from a great distance—they fly like an eagle hurrying 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 all come for violence; their multitudes go like the desert wind, and they gather captives like sand.
9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
10 So they mock kings, and rulers are only a mockery for them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they heap up earth and take them.
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 the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might is their god.”
11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
12 “Are you not from ancient times, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh has ordained them for judgment, and you, Rock, have 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 Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil, and you are not able to look on wrongdoing with favor; why then have you looked favorably on those who betray? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they are?
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 You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them.
14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15 He brings all of them up with a fishhook; he drags men away in his fishnet; he gathers them together in his dragnet; so he rejoices and he is 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 he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury, and his food is the richest kind.
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 Will he therefore keep emptying his net, and will he continually slaughter the nations without mercy?”
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