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[1] THE vision which Habakkuk the prophet saw:
[2] O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry to thee because of the plunderers, and thou wilt not deliver!
[3] Why dost thou show me iniquity and deceit? For I see violence and evil; justice was on my side, but the judge accepted bribes.
[4] Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surely does evil to the righteous; thus justice goes forth perverted
[5] Behold, O you presumptuous, see, wonder, and be amazed! for I will do a work in your days that you would not believe if a man should declare it to you.
[6] For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that hasty and bitter nation, who shall march through the breadth of the land to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
[7] They are mighty and dreadful; their judgment and their notable doings proceed of themselves.
[8] Their horses are swifter than eagles and more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen shall swoop down and shall come from afar; they shall fly like an eagle that hastens to eat.
[9] They all come for plunder; the appearance of their faces is fearful, and they shall gather booty as the sand.
[10] They scoff at kings, and princes they mock; and they laugh at every stronghold; for they heap up earth and capture it.
[11] Then shall his wind change and pass away, and his army shall be found guilty before his god
[12] Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? Art thou without a law, O LORD? For thou hast ordained them for judgment, and thou hast created us for chastisement.
[13] Thine eyes are too pure, they do not behold evil, and thou canst not look on wicked men; why dost thou look on presumptuous men, and art silent when the wicked devours the righteous man?
[14] And thou didst make men as the fish of the sea, as the creeping things that have no ruler over them.
[15] They take up all of them with the hook, they catch them in a net, and gather them in their drag; and when they gather them, they rejoice and are glad.
[16] Therefore they sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their drag, because by them their portion is made rich, and their food dainty.
[17] Therefore they cast their net continually, they slay peoples without pity
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