| 1:1 | The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. |
| 1:2 | O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out to thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save! |
| 1:3 | Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for plundering and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise strife and contention. |
| 1:4 | Therefore the law is feeble, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth surround the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted |
| 1:5 | Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you]. |
| 1:6 | 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 theirs. |
| 1:7 | They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves. |
| 1:8 | 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. |
| 1:9 | They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captives as the sand. |
| 1:10 | And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall laugh at every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. |
| 1:11 | Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, [imputing] this his power to his god. |
| 1:12 | [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. |
| 1:13 | [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he? |
| 1:14 | And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them? |
| 1:15 | They take up all of them with the hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. |
| 1:16 | Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their food plenteous. |
| 1:17 | Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? |
Habakkuk 1 - Revised Webster Version
