Verse 3
Habakkuk 1:3
Literal Standard Version
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Why do You show me iniquity, || And cause me to behold perversity? And spoiling and violence are before me, || And there is strife, and contention lifts itself up,
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ֣/מָּה תַרְאֵ֤/נִי אָ֨וֶן֙ וְ/עָמָ֣ל תַּבִּ֔יט וְ/שֹׁ֥ד וְ/חָמָ֖ס לְ/נֶגְדִּ֑/י וַ/יְהִ֧י רִ֦יב וּ/מָד֖וֹן יִשָּֽׂא
English Translation
Why do you show me iniquity and look at oppression and robbery and violence in front of me? And strife and contention arise.
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Chapter 1 Context
1
The burden that Habakkuk the prophet has seen:
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Until when, O YHWH, have I cried, || And You do not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” And You do not s...
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3
Why do You show me iniquity, || And cause me to behold perversity? And spoiling and violence are bef...
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Therefore law ceases, || And judgment does not go forth forever, || For the wicked is surrounding th...
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5
“Look on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, || You do no...
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6
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, || The bitter and hasty nation, || That is going to the b...
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7
He is terrible and fearful, || His judgment and his excellence go forth from him.
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8
His horses have been swifter than leopards, || And sharper than evening wolves, || And his horsemen...
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9
All for violence—he comes in, || Their faces swallowing up the east wind, || And he gathers a captiv...
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10
And he scoffs at kings, || And princes are a laughter to him, || He laughs at every fortification, |...
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11
Then the spirit has passed on, || Indeed, he transgresses, || And ascribes this—his power—to his god...
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12
Are You not of old, O YHWH, my God (Elohim), my Holy One? We do not die, O YHWH, || You have appoint...
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13
Purer of eyes than to behold evil, || You are not able to look on perverseness, || Why do You behold...
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14
And You make man as fishes of the sea, || As a creeping thing with none ruling over him.
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15
He has brought up each of them with a hook, || He catches it in his net, and gathers it in his dragn...
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16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net, || And makes incense to his dragnet, || For by them is his porti...
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Does he therefore empty his net, || And continually not spare to slay nations?
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