These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Habakkuk 1
Tanakh 17 verses
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THE burden which the did see.
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How long, O , shall I cry, And Thou wilt not ? I cry out unto Thee of violence, And Thou wilt not .
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- 3 Why dost Thou show me iniquity, And beholdest mischief? And why are spoiling and violence before me? So that there is strife, and contention ariseth.
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Therefore the is slacked, And right doth never go forth; For the wicked doth beset the righteous; Therefore right goeth forth perverted.
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Job 21:7 Psalm 119:126 Ezekiel 9:9 Psalm 58:1-2 Psalm 94:20-21 Isaiah 1:21-23 Jeremiah 12:1 Isaiah 5:20 Matthew 26:59-66 Psalm 94:3 Jeremiah 38:4-6 Jeremiah 5:27-29 Ezekiel 22:25-30 Acts 23:12-14 Amos 5:7 Jeremiah 26:21-23 Exodus 23:6 Psalm 22:16 Psalm 82:1-5 Romans 3:31 Matthew 23:34-36 Mark 7:9 Psalm 11:3 Acts 7:59 Hosea 10:4 Isaiah 59:13-15 Micah 7:2-4 James 2:6-7 Isaiah 59:2-8 Jeremiah 37:14-16 Micah 2:1-2 Deuteronomy 16:19 Jeremiah 26:8 Matthew 27:25-26 Acts 7:52 Exodus 23:2 Matthew 27:1-2 1 Kings 21:13 Amos 5:12 Jeremiah 12:6 Psalm 59:4 Micah 3:1-3 Psalm 59:2 - 5 Look ye among the nations, and behold, And wonder marvellously; For, behold, a work shall be wrought in your days, Which ye will not believe though it be told you.
- 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, That bitter and impetuous nation, That march through the breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
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They are terrible and dreadful; Their and their majesty proceed from themselves.
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- 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, And are more fierce than the wolves of the desert; And their horsemen spread themselves; Yea, their horsemen come from far, They fly as a vulture that hasteth to devour.
- 9 They come all of them for violence; Their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; And they gather captives as the sand.
- 10 And they scoff at kings, And princes are a derision unto them; They deride every stronghold, For they heap up earth, and take it.
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Then their doth pass over and transgress, And they become guilty: Even they who impute their might unto their .
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Art not Thou from , O my , my Holy One? We shall not die. O , Thou hast ordained them for judgment, And Thou, O Rock, hast established them for correction.
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Deuteronomy 32:4 Jeremiah 46:28 Jeremiah 30:11 Psalm 90:2 Deuteronomy 33:27 Psalm 93:2 1 Timothy 1:17 Amos 9:8-9 Acts 3:14 1 Samuel 2:2 Jeremiah 25:9-14 Isaiah 43:15 2 Kings 19:25 Micah 5:2 Revelation 1:8 Jeremiah 33:24-26 1 Timothy 6:16 Jeremiah 4:27 Isaiah 10:5-7 Lamentations 5:19 Psalm 18:1 Hebrews 1:10-12 Isaiah 37:26 Jeremiah 31:18-20 Jeremiah 5:18 Ezekiel 37:11-14 Psalm 17:13 Malachi 3:6 Hebrews 12:5-6 Isaiah 27:6-10 Isaiah 57:15 Psalm 118:17 Deuteronomy 32:30-31 Isaiah 49:7 Hebrews 13:8 Habakkuk 3:2 Isaiah 40:28 Ezekiel 30:25 Revelation 1:11 -
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Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, And that canst not look on mischief, Wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously, And holdest Thy , when the wicked swalloweth up The man that is more righteous than he;
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Psalm 34:15-16 Psalm 50:21 Jeremiah 12:1-2 Acts 3:13-15 Psalm 10:15 Psalm 35:22 Habakkuk 1:3-4 Psalm 50:3 Psalm 73:3 1 Peter 1:15-16 Job 15:15 Isaiah 33:1 Psalm 37:12-15 Psalm 56:1-2 Psalm 37:32-33 Proverbs 31:8-9 Psalm 11:4-7 Isaiah 21:2 2 Samuel 4:11 Psalm 10:1-2 Acts 2:23 Isaiah 64:12 1 Kings 2:32 Psalm 5:4-5 Psalm 83:1 Esther 4:14 -
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And makest men as the fishes of the sea, As the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
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- 15 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 exult.
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Therefore they unto their net, And offer unto their drag; Because by them their portion is fat, And their food plenteous.
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- 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, And not spare to slay the nations continually?