The World English Bible (WEB): Habakkuk
Book 35 Habakkuk 001:001 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. 001:002 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? 001:003 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. 001:004 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted. 001:005 "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you. 001:006 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. 001:007 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 001:008 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle
abroad. We were married quietly, and left almost immediately afterwards,
so we thought, on our return, it would not be a bad plan to give a
Christmas Eve dinner, and invite some of our friends. That," he said,
hesitating a moment, "was last night. Shortly after dinner, I began to
feel rather ill, and went upstairs to rest for a while; and if what you
say is true, the first thing I knew I found myself dead."
"Alive," corrected the other.
"Well, alive, though at present I feel I belong more to the world I have
left than I do to the world I appear to be in. I must confess, although
you are a very plausible gentleman to talk to, that I expect at any
moment to wake and find this to have been one of the most horrible
nightmares that I ever had the ill luck to encounter."
The other smiled.
"There is very little danger of your waking up, as you call it. Now, I
will tell you the great trouble we have with people when they first come
to the spirit-land, and that is to induce them to forget entirely
the world they have relinquished. Men whose families are in poor
circumstances, or men whose affairs are in a disordered state, find it
very difficult to keep from trying to set things right again. They have
the feeling that they can console or comfort those whom they have left
behind them, and it is often a long time before they are convinced that
their efforts are entirely futile, as well as very distressing for
Book 35 Habakkuk 001:001 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. 001:002 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? 001:003 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. 001:004 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted. 001:005 "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you. 001:006 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. 001:007 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 001:008 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle