Habakkuk1
1The burden which Havakuk [embrace] the prophet did see.2O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), how long shall I cry, and youi will not hear! [even] cry out unto youi [of] violence, and youi will not save!3Why do youi show me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention.4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass (go around, encircle; encompass) about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.5Behold you2f among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] you2f will not believe, though it be told [you].6For, lo, I raise up the Kasdim [clod-breakers], [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.7They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.8Their 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] hastes to eat.9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall gather together [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.10And 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.11Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend (make angry; make one stumble; violate), [imputing] this his power unto his god.12[Are] youi not from everlasting, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], youi have established them for correction.13[youi are] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity: wherefore look youi upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holds youri tongue when the wicked devours [the man that is] more righteous than he?14And makes men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?15They take up all of them with the angle (fishhook), they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?1I 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.2And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it.3For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it wait, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not wait.4Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.5Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people:6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that weighs himself down with thick clay!7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite youi, and awake that shall vex youi, and youi shall be for plunder unto them?8Because youi have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil (plunder; prey; booty) youi; because of men’s blood, and [for] the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it.9Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!10youi have schemed shame to youri house by cutting off many people, and have sinned [against] youri soul.11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.12Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!13Behold, [is it] not of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as the waters cover the sea.15Woe unto him that gives his neighbour drink, that mixes up youri venom to [him], and makes [him] drunken also, that youi may look on their nakedness!16youi are filled with shame for glory: drink youi also, and let youri foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] right hand shall be turned unto youi, and shameful spewing [shall be] on youri glory.17For the violence of L’vanon [Whiteness] shall cover youi, and the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) 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 in it.18What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?19Woe unto him that says 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.20But the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.1A prayer of Havakuk [embrace] the prophet upon Shigionot [meaning unknown].2O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I have heard youri speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), revive youri work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.3God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] came from Teman [south], and the Holy One from mount Pa’ran [place of caverns]. Selah [stop and diligently consider what was just said] [to exalt] His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.4And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.5Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.6He 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.7I saw the tents of Kushan [their blackness] in affliction: [and] the curtains of the land of Midyan [Strife] did tremble.8Was the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) displeased against the rivers? [was] youi anger against the rivers? [was] youri wrath against the sea, that youi did ride upon youri horses [and] youri chariots of salvation?9Your1s bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even youi] word. Selah [stop and diligently consider what was just said]. youi did cleave (split open; cut open; divide) the earth with rivers.10The mountains saw youi, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high.11The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of youri arrows they went, [and] at the shining of youri glittering spear.12youi did march through the land in indignation, youi did thresh the heathen in anger.13youi went forth for the Salvation of youri people, [even] for salvation with youri anointed; youi wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah [stop and diligently consider what was just said].14youi did strike through with his rods (clubs) the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.15youi did walk through the sea with youri horses, [through] the heap of great waters.16When 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 comes up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.17Although 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:18Yet I will rejoice in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I will joy in the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of my Salvation.19The GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ [feet], and he will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
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