HABAKKUK
3.2
- And awake that shall violently shake thee,
- And thou shalt be for booties unto them?
- 8Because thou hast spoiled many nations,
- All the remnant of the peoples shall spoil thee;
- Because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land,
- To the city and to all that dwell therein.
- 9Woe to him that gaineth evil gains for his house,
- That he may set his nest on high,
- That he may be delivered from the power of evil!
- 10Thou hast devised shame to thy house,
- By cutting off many peoples,
- And hast forfeited thy life.
- 11For the stone shall cry out of the wall,
- And the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
- 12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood,
- And establisheth a city by iniquity!
- 13Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts
- That the peoples labour for the fire,
- And the nations weary themselves for vanity?
- 14For the earth shall be filled
- With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
- As the waters cover the sea.
- 15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,
- That puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also,
- That thou mayest look on their nakedness!
- 16Thou art filled with shame instead of glory,
- Drink thou also, and be uncovered;
- The cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee,
- And filthiness shall be upon thy glory.
- 17For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee,
- And the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid,
- Because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land,
- To the city and to all that dwell therein.
- 18What profiteth the graven image,
- That the maker thereof hath graven it,
- Even the molten image, and the teacher of lies;
- That the maker of his work trusteth therein,
- To make dumb idols?
- 19Woe unto him that saith to the wood: 'Awake',
- To the dumb stone: 'Arise!'
- Can this teach?
- Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
- And there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
- 20But the Lord is in His holy temple,
- Let all the earth keep silence before Him.
3A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. Upon Shigionoth.
- 2O Lord, I have heard the report of Thee, and am afraid;
- O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years,
- In the midst of the years make it known;
- In wrath remember compassion.
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