{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Habakkuk",
 "chapter": 1,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "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 you."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "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 that are not theirs."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?"
  }
 ],
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}