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Chapter 1
- The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
- O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry
out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
- Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance?
for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up
strife and contention.
- Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth.
- Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously:
for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though
it be told you.
- For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,
which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the
dwellingplaces that are not their's.
- They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity
shall proceed of themselves.
- Their 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 hasteth to eat.
- They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the
east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
- And 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.
- Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend,
imputing this his power unto his god.
- Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we
shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O
mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
- Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look
on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously,
and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more
righteous than he?
- And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things,
that have no ruler over them?
- They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in
their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and
are glad.
- Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto
their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat
plenteous.
- Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually
to slay the nations?
Commentary:
++++++++++++++++++++++The St.
Pachomius
Orthodox Library, Sts. Jerome and Augustine, 2006.
Have mercy, O Lord, upon Thy servants
the scribe John, the scholar Karen Hieronymie,
and all the parishioners of the temple of Saint Andrew in Lubbock.
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THE END, AND TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
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