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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Habakkuk&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, must I call for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">but you do not listen?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">Or cry out to you, &#8220;Violence!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">but you do not save?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Why do you make me look at injustice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">Destruction and violence are before me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">there is strife, and conflict abounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore the law is paralyzed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">and justice never prevails.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">The wicked hem in the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">so that justice is perverted.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look at the nations and watch&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">and be utterly amazed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">For I am going to do something in your days</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">that you would not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">even if you were told.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am raising up the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">that ruthless and impetuous people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">who sweep across the whole earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">to seize dwellings not their own.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They are a feared and dreaded people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="content">they are a law to themselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="content">and promote their own honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their horses are swifter than leopards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">fiercer than wolves at dusk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">Their cavalry gallops headlong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">their horsemen come from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">they all come intent on violence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="content">Their hordes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> advance like a desert wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="content">and gather prisoners like sand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They mock kings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">and scoff at rulers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">They laugh at all fortified cities;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">by building earthen ramps they capture them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then they sweep past like the wind and go on&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.1.11"><span class="content">guilty people, whose own strength is their god.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Habakkuk&#8217;s Second Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are you not from everlasting?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">My God, my Holy One, you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">we</span></span></span><span class="content"> will never die.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have appointed them to execute judgment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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