HABAKKUK Chapter 1 (GNB)
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This is the message that the LORD revealed to the prophet Habakkuk. |
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O LORD, how long must I call for help before you listen, before you save us
from violence? |
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1:3
Why do you make me see such trouble? How can you stand to look on such
wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are all around me, and there is fighting
and quarreling everywhere. |
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The law is weak and useless, and justice is never done. Evil people get the
better of the righteous, and so justice is perverted. |
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1:5
Then the LORD said to his people, "Keep watching the nations around you,
and you will be astonished at what you see. I am going to do something that
you will not believe when you hear about it. |
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I am bringing the Babylonians to power, those fierce, restless people. They
are marching out across the world to conquer other lands. |
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They spread fear and terror, and in their pride they are a law to themselves.
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"Their horses are faster than leopards, fiercer than hungry wolves.
Their cavalry troops come riding from distant lands; their horses paw the
ground. They come swooping down like eagles attacking their prey. |
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"Their armies advance in violent conquest, and everyone is terrified as
they approach. Their captives are as numerous as grains of sand. |
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1:10
They treat kings with contempt and laugh at high officials. No fortress can
stop them---they pile up earth against it and capture it. |
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Then they sweep on like the wind and are gone, these men whose power is their
god." |
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LORD, from the very beginning you are God. You are my God, holy and eternal.
LORD, my God and protector, you have chosen the Babylonians and made them
strong so that they can punish us. |
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But how can you stand these treacherous, evil men? Your eyes are too holy to
look at evil, and you cannot stand the sight of people doing wrong. So why
are you silent while they destroy people who are more righteous than they
are? |
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1:14
How can you treat people like fish or like a swarm of insects that have no
ruler to direct them? |
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1:15
The Babylonians catch people with hooks, as though they were fish. They drag
them off in nets and shout for joy over their catch! |
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They even worship their nets and offer sacrifices to them, because their nets
provide them with the best of everything. |
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Are they going to use their swords forever and keep on destroying nations
without mercy? |
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