Page:The Holy Bible, containing the Old & New Testament & the Apocrypha (Volume 2).djvu/1239



burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.


 * LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!
 * Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
 * 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.
 * Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
 * For the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
 * Therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.


 * 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.
 * For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,
 * Which shall march through the breadth of the land,
 * To possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
 * They are terrible and dreadful:
 * Their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
 * Their horses also are swifter than the leopards,