Habakkuk 1:1-11 (New International Version)
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The oracle1 that Habakkuk the prophet received.
Habakkuk's Complaint
2 How long,2 O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen?3 Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?4 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate5 wrong?6 Destruction and violence7 are before me; there is strife,8 and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law9 is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice10 is perverted.11The LORD's Answer
5 "Look at the nations and watch-- and be utterly amazed.12 For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.13 6 I am raising up the Babylonians,a14 that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth15 to seize dwelling places not their own.16 7 They are a feared and dreaded people;17 they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. 8 Their horses are swifter18 than leopards, fiercer than wolves19 at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like a vulture swooping to devour; 9 they all come bent on violence. Their hordesb advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners20 like sand. 10 They deride kings and scoff at rulers.21 They laugh at all fortified cities; they build earthen ramps22 and capture them. 11 Then they sweep past like the wind23 and go on-- guilty men, whose own strength is their god."24Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online)
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