1The burden, which Habakkuk the Prophet did see.

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Nahum 1:1, Nahum 1:1, Isaiah 22:1, Isaiah 22:1

2O Lord, howe long shall I crye, and thou wilt not heare! euen crye out vnto thee for violence, and thou wilt not helpe!

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Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:2, Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:2, Jeremiah 14:9

3Why doest thou shewe mee iniquitie, and cause me to beholde sorowe? for spoyling, and violence are before me: and there are that rayse vp strife and contention.

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Psalms 55:9, Psalms 55:11, Psalms 55:9, Psalms 55:11, Jeremiah 20:8

4Therefore the Lawe is dissolued, and iudgement doeth neuer go forth: for the wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therefore wrong iudgement proceedeth.

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Psalms 119:126, Job 21:7, Isaiah 1:21, Isaiah 1:23, Psalms 119:126

5Beholde among the heathen, and regarde, and wonder, and maruaile: for I will worke a worke in your dayes: yee will not beleeue it, though it be tolde you.

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Acts 13:40, Acts 13:41, Acts 13:40, Acts 13:41, Lamentations 4:12

6For lo, I raise vp the Caldeans, that bitter and furious nation, which shall goe vpon the breadth of the lande to possesse the dwelling places, that are not theirs.

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2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 24:2, Jeremiah 5:15, Jeremiah 5:15, Isaiah 23:13

7They are terrible and fearefull: their iudgement and their dignitie shall proceede of theselues.

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Jeremiah 39:5, Jeremiah 39:9, Jeremiah 39:5, Jeremiah 39:9, Deuteronomy 5:27

8Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening: and their horsemen are many: and their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flie as the eagle hasting to meate.

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Jeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 4:13, Zephaniah 3:3, Zephaniah 3:3, Jeremiah 5:6

9They come all to spoyle: before their faces shalbe an Eastwinde, and they shall gather the captiuitie, as the sand.

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Genesis 41:49, Deuteronomy 28:51, Deuteronomy 28:52, Ezekiel 17:10, Habakkuk 2:5

10And they shall mocke the Kings, and the princes shalbe a skorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde: for they shall gather dust, and take it.

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2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:6, Isaiah 14:16, 2 Chronicles 36:10, Jeremiah 32:24

11Then shall they take a courage, and transgresse and doe wickedly, imputing this their power vnto their god.

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Daniel 5:20, Daniel 5:3, Daniel 5:4, Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12

12Art thou not of olde, O Lord my God, mine holy one? we shall not die: O Lord, thou hast ordeined them for iudgement, and O God, thou hast established them for correction.

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Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 33:27, Psalms 90:2, Deuteronomy 33:27

13Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euill: thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherefore doest thou looke vpon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man, that is more righteous then he?

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Psalms 5:4, Psalms 5:5, Psalms 5:4, Psalms 5:5, Psalms 34:15

14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them.

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Proverbs 6:7, Proverbs 6:7

15They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad.

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Jeremiah 16:16, Amos 4:2, Jeremiah 16:16, Amos 4:2, Psalms 10:9

16Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne, because by them their portion is fat and their meat plenteous.

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Habakkuk 1:11, Habakkuk 1:11, Ezekiel 28:3, Daniel 5:23, Daniel 4:30

17Shall they therefore stretch out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations?

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Isaiah 14:6, Jeremiah 46:1, Jeremiah 46:28, Habakkuk 2:5, Habakkuk 2:8