Habakkuk

Questioning God's Justice and Watching for a Reply

Chapter 1

¹² Are you not from of old, LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. LORD, you have set them for judgment, and Rock, you have founded them to rebuke. ¹³ Pure of eyes from seeing evil, yet you gaze upon toil—you cannot! Why do you gaze at traitors? You are silent while the wicked swallows the righteous one from him. ¹⁴ And you make humanity like fish of the sea, like creeping things with no one ruling over them. ¹⁵ He finishes with his hook, he brings him up, he drags him with his net, and gathers him in his dragnet. Upon this he rejoices and exults. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net and offers incense to his dragnet, for by it his portion is fat and his food splendid—he has seen. ¹⁷ Will he therefore empty his net and continually kill nations without sparing?

Chapter 2

¹ On my watchpost I will stand, and I will station myself on a rampart. I will watch to see what he will say to me and what I will answer concerning my rebuke.

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