GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:35urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:35The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see . O LORD , how long shall I cry , and thou wilt not hear ! even cry out unto thee of violence , and thou wilt not save ! 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 . Therefore the law is slacked , and judgment doth never go forth : for the wicked doth compass about the righteous ; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth . Behold ye among the heathen , and regard , and wonder marvellously : for I will work a work in your days , which ye will not believe , though it be told you . 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 theirs . They are terrible and dreadful : their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves . 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 . They shall come all for violence : their faces shall sup up as the east wind , and they shall gather the captivity as the sand . 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 . Then shall his mind change , and he shall pass over , and offend , imputing this his power unto his god . 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 . 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 ? And makest men as the fishes of the sea , as the creeping things , that have no ruler over them ? 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 . Therefore they sacrifice unto their net , and burn incense unto their drag ; because by them their portion is fat , and their meat plenteous . Shall they therefore empty their net , and not spare continually to slay the nations ? I will stand upon my watch , and set me upon the tower , and will watch to see what he will say unto me , and what I shall answer when I am reproved . And the LORD answered me , and said , Write the vision , and make it plain upon tables , that he may run that readeth it . For the vision is yet for an appointed time , but at the end it shall speak , and not lie : though it tarry , wait for it ; because it will surely come , it will not tarry . Behold , his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him : but the just shall live by his faith . Yea also , because he transgresseth by wine , he is a proud man , neither keepeth at home , who enlargeth his desire as hell , and is as death , and cannot be satisfied , but gathereth unto him all nations , and heapeth unto him all people : Shall not all these take up a parable against him , and a taunting proverb against him , and say , Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his ! how long ? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay ! Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee , and awake that shall vex thee , and thou shalt be for booties unto them ? Because thou hast spoiled many nations , all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee ; because of men's blood , and for the violence of the land , of the city , and of all that dwell therein . Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house , that he may set his nest on high , that he may be delivered from the power of evil ! Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people , and hast sinned against thy soul . For the stone shall cry out of the wall , and the beam out of the timber shall answer it . Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood , and stablisheth a city by iniquity ! Behold , is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire , and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity ? For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD , as the waters cover the sea . Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink , that puttest thy bottle to him , and makest him drunken also , that thou mayest look on their nakedness ! Thou art filled with shame for glory : drink thou also , and let thy foreskin be uncovered : the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee , and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory . For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee , and the spoil of beasts , which made them afraid , because of men's blood , and for the violence of the land , of the city , and of all that dwell therein . What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it ; the molten image , and a teacher of lies , that the maker of his work trusteth therein , to make dumb idols ? Woe unto him that saith to the wood , Awake ; to the dumb stone , Arise , it shall teach ! Behold , it is laid over with gold and silver , and there is no breath at all in the midst of it . But the LORD is in his holy temple : let all the earth keep silence before him . A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth . O LORD , I have heard thy speech , and was afraid : O LORD , revive thy work in the midst of the years , in the midst of the years make known ; in wrath remember mercy . God came from Teman , and the Holy One from mount Paran . Selah . His glory covered the heavens , and the earth was full of his praise . And his brightness was as the light ; he had horns coming out of his hand : and there was the hiding of his power . Before him went the pestilence , and burning coals went forth at his feet . He stood , and measured the earth : he beheld , and drove asunder the nations ; and the everlasting mountains were scattered , the perpetual hills did bow : his ways are everlasting . I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction : and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble . Was the LORD displeased against the rivers ? was thine anger against the rivers ? was thy wrath against the sea , that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation ? Thy bow was made quite naked , according to the oaths of the tribes , even thy word . Selah . Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers . The mountains saw thee , and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice , and lifted up his hands on high . The sun and moon stood still in their habitation : at the light of thine arrows they went , and at the shining of thy glittering spear . Thou didst march through the land in indignation , thou didst thresh the heathen in anger . Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people , even for salvation with thine anointed ; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked , by discovering the foundation unto the neck . Selah . Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages : they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me : their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly . Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses , through the heap of great waters . When I heard , my belly trembled ; my lips quivered at the voice : rottenness entered into my bones , and I trembled in myself , that I might rest in the day of trouble : when he cometh up unto the people , he will invade them with his troops . Although the fig tree shall not blossom , neither shall fruit be in the vines ; the labour of the olive shall fail , and the fields shall yield no meat ; the flock shall be cut off from the fold , and there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet I will rejoice in the LORD , I will joy in the God of my salvation . The LORD God is my strength , and he will make my feet like hinds' feet , and he will make me to walk upon mine high places . To the chief singer on my stringed instruments .