Habakkuk verse by verse

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Habakkuk 1:7 (KJV) They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

 

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Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
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Habakkuk 1:9 (KJV) They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

 

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Habakkuk 1:10 (KJV) And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

 

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Habakkuk 1:11 (KJV) Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

 

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Habakkuk 1:12 (KJV) Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

 

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Habakkuk 1:13 (KJV) Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

 

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Habakkuk 1:14 (KJV) And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

 

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Habakkuk 1:15 (KJV)
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

 

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Habakkuk 1:16 (KJV) Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

 

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Habakkuk 1:17 (KJV) Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

 

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Habakkuk 2:1

I will stand upon my watch, and set
me upon the tower, and will watch to
see what he will say unto me, and what
I will answer when I am reproved.

 

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Habakkuk 2:2 (KJV) And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

 

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Habakkuk 2:3 (KJV) For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

 

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Habakkuk 2:4 (KJV) Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

 

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Habakkuk 2:5 (KJV) 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 unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

 

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Habakkuk 2:6 (KJV) Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

 

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Habakkuk 2:7 (KJV) Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

 

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Habakkuk 2:8 (KJV) Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

 

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Habakkuk 2:9 (KJV) Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!