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

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

3Why 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.

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

4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

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

5Behold 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.

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

6For, 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.

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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 dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

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

8Their 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.

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

9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity 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 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.

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

11Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

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

12Art 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.

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

13Thou 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?

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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, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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Proverbs 6:7, Proverbs 6:7

15They 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.

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

16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; 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 empty 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