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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