Habakkuk 1

¹The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

²O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear?

³Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance?

⁴Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:

⁵Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously:

⁶For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,

⁷They are terrible and dreadful:

⁸Their horses also are swifter than the leopards,

⁹They shall come all for violence:

¹⁰And they shall scoff at the kings,

¹¹Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend,

¹²Art thou not from everlasting,

¹³Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil,

¹⁴And makest men as the fishes of the sea,

¹⁵They take up all of them with the angle,

¹⁶Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag;

¹⁷Shall they therefore empty their net,