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New International Version
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1
|Habacuc 1:1|
The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received.
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2
|Habacuc 1:2|
How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
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3
|Habacuc 1:3|
Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
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4
|Habacuc 1:4|
Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
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5
|Habacuc 1:5|
“Look at the nations and watch — and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
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6
|Habacuc 1:6|
I am raising up the Babylonians, [Or Chaldeans] that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling-places not their own.
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7
|Habacuc 1:7|
They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honour.
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8
|Habacuc 1:8|
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like a vulture swooping to devour;
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9
|Habacuc 1:9|
they all come bent on violence. Their hordes [The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.] advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.
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10
|Habacuc 1:10|
They deride kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; they build earthen ramps and capture them.
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