1   The ^note burden that Habacuc the prophete saw.

2   How long ô Lord shal I crie, and thou wilt not heare? shal I crie out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not saue?

3   Why hast thou shewed me iniquitie and labour, to see praye and iniustice against me? and iudgement is made, & contradiction more mightie.

4   For this cause is the law torne, & iudgement came not to the end: because the impious preuaileth agaynst the iust, therfore doth there come forth peruerse iudgement.

5   Behold ye in the nations, and see: meruel, and be astonied: because ^note a worke is done in your dayes, which no man wil beleue when it shal be told.

6   Because loe I ^note wil rayse vp the Chaldees, a bitter & swift nation, walking vpon the latitude of the earth, to possesse tabernacles not their owne.

7   It is horrible, and terrible: out of it self shal the iudgement, and the burden therof procede.

8   His horses lighter then leopards, and swifter then euening wolues; and his horsemen shal be spred abrode, for his horsemen shal come from a far, they shal flie as an eagle hastening to eate.

9   Al shal come to the praye, their faces a burning

winde: & he shal gather together as the sand, captiuitie.

10   And he shal triumph ouer kinges, & tyrants shal be his laughing flocke, and he shal laugh vpon euerie munition, and shal cast vp a mount, and shal take it.

11    ^noteThen shal the spirit be changed, and he shal passe, & fal: this is his strength of his God.

12   Why wast thou not from the beginning ô Lord my God, my holie one, & we shal not dye? Lord thou hast appoynted him for iudgement: and strong to chastise, thou hast founded him.

13   Thine eyes are cleane, from seing euil, & thou canst not looke toward iniquitie. Why lookest thou not vpon them that doe vniust thinges, & holdest thy peace when the impious deuoureth him that is more iust then him self?

14   And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, & as the creeping beast not hauing a prince.

15    ^noteHe lifted vp al in the hooke, he drew it in his traine, and gathered it into his nette: vpon this he wil be glad and reioyce.

16   Therfore wil he immolate to his trayne, and he wil sacrifice do his nette: because by them his portion is fatte, and his meate chosen.

17   For this cause therfore spreddeth he his trayne, and alwayes to kil ^note the nations he wil not spare. Chap. II. ^note The captiuitie of the two tribes, their relaxation, Christ wil assuredly come though not quickly. 5. Their afflicters (the Chaldees) shal be destroyed; 18. and al other idolaters.

1   I ^note wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.

2   And our Lord answered me, & sayd: Write the vision, & make it playne vpon tables: that he which runneth may read it ouer.

3   Because as yet the vision is far, and it shal appeare at the end, and shal not lye: if he shal make tariance, expect him: because coming he wil come, & he ^note wil not slacke.

4   Behold he that is incredulous, his soule shal not be right in him self: but ^note the iust shal liue in his faith.

5   And as wine deceiueth him that drinketh: so shal the prowd man be, and he shal not be beautified: who as it were hel, hath dilated his soule: and himself as death, and he is not filled: and he hath gathered together vnto him al nations, and hath heaped together vnto him al peoples.

6   Why, shal not al these take vp a parable vpon him, and a speach of obscure sayings of him: and it be sayd: Wo to him, that multiplieth thinges not his owne? how long also doth he agrauat

against himself thicke clay?

7   Why, shal they not rise sodenly, that shal bite thee: and they that teare thee, be raysed vp, and thou be for a spoile to them?

8   Because thou hast spoiled manie nations, al that shal be left of the peoples shal spoile thee: for the bloud ^note of man, and the iniquitie of the land, of the citie, and of al that dwel therein.

9   Wo to him that gathereth together naughtie auarice to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he is deliuered out of the hand of euil.

10   Thou ^note hast thought confusion to thy house, thou hast cut in sunder manie peoples, and thy soule hath sinned.

11   Because the stone out of the wal shal crie: and the timber, that is betwen the iunctures of the buildings, shal answer.

12   Wo to him that buildeth a citie in blouds, and prepareth a citie in iniquitie.

13   Why, are not these thinges from the Lord of hosts? For the peoples shal labour in much fire: and the nations in vaine, and they shal faynt.

14   Because the earth shal be replenished, that they may know the glorie of our Lord, as waters couering the sea.

15   Wo to him that geueth drinke to his freind, putting in his gal, and making drunke, that he may behold his nakednes.

16   Thou art filled with ignominie for glorie, drinke thou also, and be fast a sleepe: the cuppe of the right hand of our Lord shal compasse thee, and the vomite of ignominie vpon thy glorie.

17   Because the iniquitie of Libanus shal couer thee, and the wasting of the beasts shal terrifie them for the blouds of men, and the iniquitie of the land, and of the citie, and of al that dwel therein.

18   What profiteth the thing engrauen, that the forger therof hath grauen it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger therof hath hoped in his forgerie, to make dumme idols.

19   Wo vnto him that sayth to wood: Awake: Arise, to the dumme stone. Why, can it teach? Behold, this same is couered with gold, and siluer: and there is no spirit in the bowels therof.

20   But our Lord is in his holie temple: let al the earth be silent at his presence. Chap. III.

1   The prayer of Habacuc the prophet for ^note ignorances.

2   Lord I heard thy hearing, and ^note was afrayd.

2   Lord thy worke in ^note the middes of yeares, quicken it:

2   In the middes of yeares shalt thou make it knowen: when thou art angrie, thou wilt remember mercie.

3   God wil come from ^note the South, and the holie one from mount Pharan: ^note

3   His glorie shal couer the heauens, and the earth is ful of his prayse.

4   His brightnes shal be as the light, hornes in his handes:

4   There is his strength hid.

5   Before his face shal death goe. and the deuil shal goe forth before his feete.

6   He stood and measured the earth. he beheld, and dissolued the Gentils: and the mountaines of the world were broken. The hilles of the world were bowed, by the wayes of his eternitie.

7   For iniquitie I saw the tents of Æthiopia, ^note the skinnes of the land of Madian shal be trubled.

8   Why, wast thou angrie with the riuers ô Lord? or was thy furie in the riuers? or thine indignation in the sea?

8   Who wilt mount vpon thy horses, and thy chariots saluation.

9   Raysing thou wilt rayse vp thy bow: the othe to the tribes which thou hast spoken. ^note

9   Thou wilt cutte the riuers of the earth.

10   The mountaines saw thee, and were sorie, the gulfe of water passed. The depth gaue his voice: the height lifted vp his handes.

11   The sunne, and the moone stood in their habitation, in the light of thine arrowes, they shal goe in the brightnes of thy glittering speare.

12   In freating thou wilt treade downe the earth: in furie thou wilt astonish the Gentils.

13   Thou wentst forth the saluation of thy people: saluation with thy Christ. Thou strokest ^note the head out of the house of the impious, thou hast discouered the fundation euen to the neck. ^note

14   Thou hast cursed his scepters, the head of his warriers, them that come as a whirlewinde to disperse me.

14   Their exultation, as his that deuoureth the poore in secrete.

15   Thou madest a way in the sea for thy horses, in the middes of manie waters.

16   I heard, and my bellie was trubled: at the voice my lippes trembled. let rottenes enter in my bones, & swarme vnder me.

That I may rest in ^note the day of tribulation: that I may ascend to our girded people.

17   For the figtree shal not florish: and there shal be no spring in the vines. The worke of the oliuetree shal deceiue: and the fields shal not yeld meate: the cattel shal be cut of from the fold, and there shal be no heard in the stalles.

18   But I wil ioy in our Lord: and wil reioyce in God my Iesvs.

19   God our Lord is my strength: and he wil make my feete as of the harts. and vpon my high places he the conquerer wil lead me singing in psalmes.

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