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Habakkuk 1:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! "

Habakkuk 1:2

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1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

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From This Chapter

Habakkuk 1:1

"The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see."

Habakkuk 1:3

"Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention."

Habakkuk 1:4

"Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth."

Habakkuk 1:5

"Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told"

Habakkuk 1:6

"For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces"

Habakkuk 1:7

"They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed"
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