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Habakkuk
1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!
even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
1:3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold
grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and
there are that raise up strife and contention.
1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never
go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
The Lord’s Answer
1:5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye
will not believe, though it be told you.
1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and
hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the
land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and
their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and
are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen
shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from
far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup
up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as
the sand.
1:10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes
shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong
hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
1:11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over,
and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Habakkuk’s Second
Complaint
1:12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine
Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them
for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them
for correction.
1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst
not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that
deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked
devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
1:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the
creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
1:15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch
them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore
they rejoice and are glad.
1:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn
incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is
fat, and their meat plenteous.
1:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
continually to slay the nations? |
Cults 
Why Did God Permit Sin?
