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The burden which Habakkuk þe; Prophet did see.

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O Lord, howe long shall I crie, and thou wilt not heare! euen cry out vnto thee of violence, and thou wilt not saue?

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Why doest thou shew me iniquity, ∧ cause me to behold grieuance? for spoiling and violence are before me: ∧ there are that raise vp strife and contention.

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Therefore the Lawe is slacked, and iudgement doeth neuer goe foorth: for the ^note wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therfore ^note wrong iudgement proceedeth.

5   
¶ Behold ye ^note among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marueilously: for I wil worke a worke in your daies, which yee will not beleeue, though it be tolde you.

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For loe, I raise vp the Caldeans, that bitter and hastie nation, which shall march through the ^note breadth of the land, to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs.

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They are terrible and dreadfull: ^note their iudgement and their dignity shal proceed of themselues.

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Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more ^note fierce then the ^note euening wolues: ∧ their horsemen shall spread themselues, and their horsemen shall come from farre, they shall flie as the Eagle that hasteth to eate.

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They shall come all for violence: ^note their faces shall sup vp as the East winde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sand.

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And they shal scoffe at the Kings, and the Princes shall bee a scorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde, for they shall heape dust ∧ take it.

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Then shall his minde change, and he shall passe ouer, and offend, imputing this his power vnto his God.

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¶ Art thou not from euerlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy one? we shall not die: O Lord, thou hast ordained them for iudgement, and O ^note mightie God, thou hast ^note established them for correction.

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Thou art of purer eyes then to beholde euill, and canst not looke on ^note ininquitie: wherefore lookest thou vpon them that deale treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then hee?

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And makest men as the fishes of the Sea, as the ^note creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them.

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They take vp all of them with the angle: they catch them in their net, and gather them in their ^note dragge; therefore they reioyce and are glad.

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Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their drag: because by them their portion is fat, and their meat ^note plenteous.

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Shall they therefore emptie their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? 905 CHAP. II. 1 Vnto Habakkuk, waiting for an answere, is shewed that he must waite by faith. 5 The iudgement vpon the Caldean for vnsatiablenesse, 9 for couetousnesse, 12 for crueltie, 15 for drunkennesse, 18 and for idolatrie.

Stones shall crie.

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I will ^note stand vpon my watch, ∧ set mee vpon the ^note towre, and will watch to see what he will say ^note vnto me, and what I shall answere ^note when I am reproued.

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And the Lord answered me and said, write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it.

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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tary, wait for it, because it will ^note surely come, it wil not tary.

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Behold, his soule which is lifted vp, is not vpright in him; but the ^note iust shall liue by his faith.

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¶ ^note Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, ∧ heapeth vnto him all people:

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Shal not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say; ^note Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his: how long? and to him that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay.

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Shall they not rise vp suddenly that shall bite thee? and awake, that shall vexe thee? and thou shalt be for booties vnto them?

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Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoile thee: because of mens ^note blood, and for the violence of the land, of the citie, and of all that dwell therein.

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¶ Woe to him that ^{note note} coueteth an euill couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that hee may be deliuered from the ^note power of euill.

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Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soule.

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For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the ^note beame out of the timber ^note shall answere it.

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¶ Woe to him that buildeth a towne with ^{note note} blood, and stablisheth a citie by iniquitie.

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Behold, is it not of the Lord of hostes, that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shal wearie themselues for ^note very vanitie?

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For the earth shall be filled ^note with the ^note knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters couer the Sea.

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¶ Woe vnto him that giueth his Woe to idolaters. neighbour drinke: that puttest thy bottell to him, and makest him drunken also; that thou mayest looke on their nakednesse.

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Thou art filled ^note with shame for glory: ^note drinke thou also, and let thy foreskin bee vncouered: the cup of the Lords right hand shall be turned vnto thee, and shamefull spewing shalbe on thy glory.

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For the violence of Lebanon shall couer thee: and the spoile of beasts, which made them afraide, because of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, ∧ of al that dwel therin.

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¶ What profiteth the grauen image, that the maker thereof hath grauen it; the molten image, and a ^note teacher of lies, that ^note the maker of his worke, trusteth therin, to make dumbe idoles.

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Woe vnto him that saith to the wood, Awake: to the dumbe stone, Arise, it shall teach: behold, it is layed ouer with gold and siluer, and there is no breath at all in the middest of it.

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But ^note the Lord is in his holy temple: ^note let all the earth keepe silence before him. 906 CHAP. III. 1 Habakkuk in his prayer, trembleth at Gods Maiestie. 17 The confidence of his faith.

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A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet ^note vpon Sigionoth.

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O Lord, I haue heard ^note thy speach, and was afraide: O Lord, ^note reuiue thy worke in the midst of the yeeres, in the midst of the yeeres make knowen; in wrath remember mercy.

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God came from ^note Teman, and the holy on from mount Paran Selah. His glory couered the heauens and the earth was full of his praise.

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And his brightnesse was as the light: he had ^note hornes comming out of his hand, and there was the hiding of his power:

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Before him went the pestilence, and ^note burning coales went forth at his feete.

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He stood and measured the earth: hee beheld and droue asunder the nations, and the euerlasting mountaines were scattered, the perpetuall hilles did bowe: his wayes are euerlasting.

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I saw the tents of ^note Cushan ^note in affliction: and the curtaines of the land of Midian did tremble.

Gods wrath for diuers sinnes.

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Was the Lord displeased against the riuers? was thine anger against the riuers? was thy wrath against the Sea, that thou didst ride vpon thine horses, and ^note thy charets of saluation?

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Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oathes of the tribes, euen thy word. Selah. ^noteThou didst cleaue the earth with riuers.

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The mountaines sawe thee, and they trembled: the ouerflowing of the water passed by: the deepe vttered his voyce, and lift vp his hands on high.

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The Sunne and Moone ^note stood still in their habitation: ^note at the light of thine ^note arrowes they went, and at the shining of thy glittering speare.

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Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

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Thou wentest forth for the saluation of thy people, euen for saluation with thine Anointed, thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, ^note by discouering the foundation vnto the necke. Selah.

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Thou didst strike through with Gods wrath for diuers sinnes. his staues the head of his villages: they ^note came out as a whirle-winde to scatter me: their reioycing was as to deuoure the poore secretly.

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Thou didst walke through the Sea with thine horses, through the ^note heape of great waters.

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When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips quiuered at the voice: rottennesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when hee commeth vp vnto the people, he wil ^note inuade them with his troupes.

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¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossome, neither shall fruite bee in the vines: the labour of the Oliue shall ^note faile, and the fields shal yeeld no meat, the flocke shall be cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no heard in the stalles:

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Yet I will reioyce in the Lord: I will ioy in the God of my saluation.

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The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like ^note hindes feet, and he will make me to walke vpon mine high places. To the chiefe singer on my ^note stringed instruments.

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