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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../nahum/3.htm" title="Nahum 3">◄</a> Habakkuk 1 <a href="../habakkuk/2.htm" title="Habakkuk 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch42001" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn42001" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span id="v42001001" class="ver">1</span>The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision.</p> <section> <h2 class="ah">Habakkuk’s First Complaint</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v42001002" class="ver">2</span>How long, O <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, must I cry for help<a id="rfn42001002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001002-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and you do not listen?<a id="ren42001002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en42001002-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl">Or cry out to you, “Violence!”</p> <p class="sl1">and you do not intervene?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001003" class="ver">3</span>Why do you let me see iniquity?</p> <p class="sl1">why do you simply gaze at evil?</p> <p class="sl">Destruction and violence are before me;<a id="ren42001003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en42001003-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">there is strife and discord.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001004" class="ver">4</span>This is why the law is numb<a id="rfn42001004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001004-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and justice never comes,</p> <p class="sl">For the wicked surround the just;<a id="ren42001004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en42001004-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl1">this is why justice comes forth perverted.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">God’s Response</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v42001005" class="ver">5</span><a id="rfn42001005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001005-1">*</a> Look over the nations and see!</p> <p class="sl1">Be utterly amazed!</p> <p class="sl">For a work is being done in your days</p> <p class="sl1">that you would not believe, were it told.<a id="ren42001005-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en42001005-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001006" class="ver">6</span>For now I am raising up the Chaldeans,<a id="ren42001006-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en42001006-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">that bitter and impulsive people,</p> <p class="sl">Who march the breadth of the land</p> <p class="sl1">to take dwellings not their own.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001007" class="ver">7</span>They are terrifying and dreadful;</p> <p class="sl1">their right and their exalted position are of their own making.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001008" class="ver">8</span>Swifter than leopards are their horses,</p> <p class="sl1">and faster than desert wolves.</p> <p class="sl">Their horses spring forward;</p> <p class="sl1">they come from far away;</p> <p class="sl1">they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001009" class="ver">9</span>All of them come for violence,</p> <p class="sl1">their combined onslaught, a stormwind</p> <p class="sl1">to gather up captives like sand.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001010" class="ver">10</span>They scoff at kings,</p> <p class="sl1">ridicule princes;</p> <p class="sl">They laugh at any fortress,</p> <p class="sl1">heap up an earthen ramp, and conquer it.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001011" class="ver">11</span>Then they sweep through like the wind and vanish—</p> <p class="sl1">they make their own strength their god!<a id="rfn42001011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001011-1">*</a></p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">Habakkuk’s Second Complaint</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v42001012" class="ver">12</span>Are you not from of old, O <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">my holy God, immortal?<a id="ren42001012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en42001012-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span class="tetr">Lord</span>, you have appointed them for judgment,<a id="rfn42001012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001012-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">O Rock,<a id="rfn42001012-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001012-2">*</a> you have set them in place to punish!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001013" class="ver">13</span>Your eyes are too pure to look upon wickedness,</p> <p class="sl1">and the sight of evil you cannot endure.</p> <p class="sl">Why, then, do you gaze on the faithless in silence</p> <p class="sl1">while the wicked devour those more just than themselves?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001014" class="ver">14</span>You have made mortals like the fish in the sea,</p> <p class="sl1">like creeping things without a leader.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001015" class="ver">15</span>He<a id="rfn42001015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001015-1">*</a> brings them all up with a hook,</p> <p class="sl1">and hauls them away with his net;</p> <p class="sl">He gathers them in his fishing net,</p> <p class="sl1">and then rejoices and exults.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001016" class="ver">16</span>Therefore he makes sacrifices to his net,<a id="rfn42001016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn42001016-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and burns incense to his fishing net;</p> <p class="sl">For thanks to them his portion is rich,</p> <p class="sl1">and his meal lavish.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v42001017" class="ver">17</span>Shall they, then, keep on drawing his sword</p> <p class="sl1">to slaughter nations without mercy?</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a 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