NITHYAM SONGSHabakkuk 1
World English Bible (WEB) • 17 verses
1The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
RelatedPsalms 22:1-2 · Psalms 13:1-2 · Lamentations 3:8 · Jeremiah 14:9 · Psalms 94:3 · Revelation 6:10
3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
RelatedPsalms 55:9-11 · Jeremiah 20:8 · Micah 7:1-4 · Ecclesiastes 5:8 · Jeremiah 9:2-6 · Psalms 120:5-6
4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
5“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.
RelatedActs 13:40-41 · Isaiah 29:14 · Lamentations 4:12 · Jeremiah 5:12-13 · Jeremiah 9:25-26 · Jeremiah 18:18
6For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
Related2 Kings 24:2 · Jeremiah 5:15 · 2 Chronicles 36:17 · 2 Chronicles 36:6 · Jeremiah 25:9 · Isaiah 23:13
7They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
RelatedJeremiah 39:5-9 · Jeremiah 52:9-11 · Deuteronomy 5:19 · Jeremiah 52:25-27 · Isaiah 18:7 · Deuteronomy 5:27
8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
10Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.
Related2 Chronicles 36:6 · 2 Chronicles 36:10 · Jeremiah 32:24 · Isaiah 14:16 · 2 Kings 25:6-7 · Jeremiah 33:4
11Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
12Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
RelatedDeuteronomy 32:4 · Psalms 90:2 · Deuteronomy 33:27 · Jeremiah 30:11 · Jeremiah 46:28 · Psalms 93:2
13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
RelatedPsalms 5:4-5 · Psalms 34:15-16 · Jeremiah 12:1-2 · Habakkuk 1:3-4 · Proverbs 31:8-9 · 2 Samuel 4:11
14and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
RelatedProverbs 6:7
15He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
16Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
17Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
RelatedEzekiel 25:1-17 · Habakkuk 1:9-10 · Jeremiah 52:1-34 · Habakkuk 2:17 · Isaiah 14:6 · Habakkuk 2:5-8
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.