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Rh :The sword shall cut thee off,
 * It shall devour thee like the canker-worm;
 * Make thyself many as the canker-worm,
 * Make thyself many as the locust.
 * Thou hast multiplied thy merchants
 * Above the stars of heaven;
 * The canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.
 * Thy crowned are as the locusts,
 * And thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers,
 * Which camp in the walls in the cold day,
 * But when the sun ariseth they flee away,
 * And their place is not known where they are.
 * Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria,
 * Thy worthies are at rest;
 * Thy people are scattered upon the mountains,
 * And there is none to gather them.
 * There is no assuaging of thy hurt,
 * Thy wound is grievous;
 * All that hear the report of thee
 * Clap the hands over thee;
 * For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

 

burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.


 * How long, O, shall I cry,
 * And Thou wilt not hear?
 * I cry out unto Thee of violence,
 * And Thou wilt not save.
 * Why dost Thou show me iniquity,
 * And beholdest mischief?
 * And why are spoiling and violence before me?
 * So that there is strife, and contention ariseth.
 * Therefore the law is slacked,
 * And right doth never go forth;
 * For the wicked doth beset the righteous;
 * Therefore right goeth forth perverted.


 * Look ye among the nations, and behold,
 * And wonder marvellously;
 * For, behold, a work shall be wrought in your days,
 * Which ye will not believe though it be told you.
 * For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans,
 * That bitter and impetuous nation,
 * That march through the breadth of the earth,
 * To possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
 * They are terrible and dreadful;
 * Their law and their majesty proceed from themselves.
 * Their horses also are swifter than leopards,
 * And are more fierce than the wolves of the desert;
 * And their horsemen spread themselves;
 * Yea, their horsemen come from far,
 * They fly as a vulture that hasteth to devour.
 * They come all of them for violence;