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Habakkuk 1

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CHAPTER 1

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The judgment that prophet Habakkuk saw:

 

     HABAKKUK’S PRAYER

 

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The Self-existent, how long will I cry and You will not hear? How long will I cry out to You regarding injustice and You will not intervene!

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Why do You make me to see evil deed and perverseness? Maltreatment and injustice are all I see. There are also those who instigate strife and contention.

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For this reason, the law is impotent and justice does not issue out. Because evildoers are all around the upright, wrong judgment is all that issues out.

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THE RESPONSE OF THE SELF-EXISTENT
See yourself among foreign nationals, consider and wonder marvelously. This is because I am about to do something in your days, which you will not believe, though it be told you:

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I am raising up the Chaldeans, that furious and swift nation, who shall march through the breadth of the land, to take over houses that are not theirs.

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They are terrible and dreadful – they are led by their instinct.

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Their horses are swifter than leopards and fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen shall spread themselves. They shall come from afar; they shall fly down as eagle that descends hurriedly to devour.

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They shall come for violence, their faces sup up as the east wind; they shall gather captives as the sand.

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They shall scoff at kings, and princes shall be a laughingstock to them: They shall despise every fenced city; they shall heap up dust and carry it away.

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Then shall his [the king of Babylon’s] mind change; he shall overstep leftBracket symbolhis boundaryrightBracket symbol and offend, ascribing this power to his god.

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HABAKKUK’S RESPONSE TO THE SELF-EXISTENT’S ANSWER
Are You not from everlasting, the Self-existent, my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. The Self-existent, You have ordained them for judgment; mighty God, You have determined to punish them.

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Your eyes are purer than to watch evil. You cannot look on sin either. Why then are You looking at those who transgress and keep silence when this evildoer devoured the one more upright than him?

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Have You now made men to be as the fishes of the sea or reptiles that have no ruler over them?

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They [the Chaldeans] take them up with hooks, catch them in their nets, and gather them in their drag, Consequently, they rejoice and celebrate.

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Therefore, they sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their drag - because by them, they get a fat allotment and plenty food.

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Shall they then carry away the fishes [people] in their net and not have pity? Shall they keep on destroying nations?

Habakkuk 1