Habakkuk · 17 verses
Habakkuk 1
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The conqueror burns incense to the net that has caught his victims.
A cry beneath a broken lawvv. 1–4
Habakkuk receives a burden in a vision and brings an old, unanswered complaint: violence is plainly visible, yet help does not arrive. Strife keeps going, conflict multiplies, and the law has become strangely powerless; the wicked hem in the righteous until justice comes out bent.
An answer with boots onvv. 5–11
The LORD answers with a spectacle rather than an explanation: a ruthless nation is being raised up, quick as leopards and wolves, sweeping across the earth to take houses belonging to others. Kings and fortresses are merely amusing obstacles to them. Their own strength is their god, which is a remarkably efficient deity for an army on the move.
The question returns sharpervv. 12–17
Habakkuk answers by holding together the LORD’s everlasting holiness and the troubling appointment of this conqueror as an instrument of judgment. Humanity is pictured as fish hauled up by hook, dragnet, and fishing net; the foe rejoices over the catch, then sacrifices to the equipment because it supplies his rich food. The chapter closes with Habakkuk asking whether the net will simply be emptied and the slaughter continued.
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Hab 1:1This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:
Hab 1:2How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
Hab 1:3Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
Hab 1:5“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
Hab 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
Hab 1:7They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.
Hab 1:8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
Hab 1:9All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
Hab 1:10They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.
Hab 1:11Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”
Hab 1:12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
Hab 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Hab 1:14You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
Hab 1:15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
Hab 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
Hab 1:17Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?
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- 5Acts 13:40–41Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:
- 13Psalms 5:4–5For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
- 13Psalms 34:15–16The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- 2Psalms 22:1–2For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- 12Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- 2Psalms 13:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- 5Isaiah 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
- 13Jeremiah 12:1–2Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- 2Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- 5Lamentations 4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
- 12Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
- 2Jeremiah 14:9Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
- 62 Kings 24:2And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
- 12Jeremiah 46:28And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- 12Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- 12Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
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