Habakkuk 1

Habakkuk 1 in full

King James Version, 17 verses. Tap a reference to link straight to a single verse.

1. Hab 1:1

   The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

2. Hab 1:2

   O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3. Hab 1:3

   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.

4. Hab 1:4

   Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

5. Hab 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.

6. Hab 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.

7. Hab 1:7

   They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8. Hab 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.

9. Hab 1:9

   They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10. Hab 1:10

    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.

11. Hab 1:11

    Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12. Hab 1:12

    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.

13. Hab 1:13

    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?

14. Hab 1:14

    And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15. Hab 1:15

    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.

16. Hab 1:16

    Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

17. Hab 1:17

    Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

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Habakkuk 1 is part of Habakkuk, book 35 of the 66 in the King James Bible. Read the 3 chapters straight through, or search any word across all 66 books.