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Rh :And awake that shall violently shake thee,
 * And thou shalt be for booties unto them?
 * Because thou hast spoiled many nations,
 * All the remnant of the peoples shall spoil thee;
 * Because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land,
 * To the city and to all that dwell therein.


 * Woe to him that gaineth evil gains for his house,
 * That he may set his nest on high,
 * That he may be delivered from the power of evil!
 * Thou hast devised shame to thy house,
 * By cutting off many peoples,
 * And hast forfeited thy life.
 * For the stone shall cry out of the wall,
 * And the beam out of the timber shall answer it.


 * Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood,
 * And establisheth a city by iniquity!
 * Behold, is it not of the of hosts
 * That the peoples labour for the fire,
 * And the nations weary themselves for vanity?
 * For the earth shall be filled
 * With the knowledge of the glory of the ,
 * As the waters cover the sea.


 * Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,
 * That puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also,
 * That thou mayest look on their nakedness!
 * Thou art filled with shame instead of glory,
 * Drink thou also, and be uncovered;
 * The cup of the right hand shall be turned unto thee,
 * And filthiness shall be upon thy glory.
 * For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee,
 * And the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid,
 * Because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land,
 * To the city and to all that dwell therein.


 * What profiteth the graven image,
 * That the maker thereof hath graven it,
 * Even the molten image, and the teacher of lies;
 * That the maker of his work trusteth therein,
 * To make dumb idols?
 * Woe unto him that saith to the wood: 'Awake',
 * To the dumb stone: 'Arise!'
 * Can this teach?
 * Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
 * And there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
 * But the is in His holy temple,
 * Let all the earth keep silence before Him.

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. Upon Shigionoth.


 * O, I have heard the report of Thee, and am afraid;
 * O, revive Thy work in the midst of the years,
 * In the midst of the years make it known;
 * In wrath remember compassion.