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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
that hurries to devour.
001:009 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert.
He gathers prisoners like sand.
001:010 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him.
MY DEAR SIR, BY inscribing this Volume to you I am merely discharging a debt of gratitude and justice. But for you I believe it would not have been printed; for you not only advocated its publication, but have generously contributed to diminish the cost of its production to the "WILTSHIRE TOPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY", under whose auspices it is now submitted to the public. Though comparatively obsolete as regards its scientific, archaeological, and philosophical information, AUBREY'S "NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE" is replete with curious and entertaining facts and suggestions, at once characterising the writer, and the age in which he lived, and illustrating the history and topography of his native county. Had this work been revised and printed by its author, as he wished and intended it to have been, it would have proved as useful and important as Plot's "Staffordshire" and "Oxfordshire"; Burton's "Leicestershire"; Morton's "Northamptonshire"; Philipott's "Kent"; or any others of its literary predecessors or contemporaries. It could not have failed to produce useful results to the county it describes; as it was calculated to promote inquiry, awaken curiosity, He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp,
and takes it.
001:011 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty,
whose strength is his god."
001:012 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will
not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment.
You, Rock, have established him to punish.
001:013 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look
on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously,
and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is
more righteous than he,
001:014 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things,
that have no ruler over them?
001:015 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net,
and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices
and is glad.
001:016 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense
to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious,
and his food is good.
001:017 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill
the nations without mercy?
002:001 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts,
and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I
will answer concerning my complaint.
002:002 Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain
MY DEAR SIR, BY inscribing this Volume to you I am merely discharging a debt of gratitude and justice. But for you I believe it would not have been printed; for you not only advocated its publication, but have generously contributed to diminish the cost of its production to the "WILTSHIRE TOPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY", under whose auspices it is now submitted to the public. Though comparatively obsolete as regards its scientific, archaeological, and philosophical information, AUBREY'S "NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE" is replete with curious and entertaining facts and suggestions, at once characterising the writer, and the age in which he lived, and illustrating the history and topography of his native county. Had this work been revised and printed by its author, as he wished and intended it to have been, it would have proved as useful and important as Plot's "Staffordshire" and "Oxfordshire"; Burton's "Leicestershire"; Morton's "Northamptonshire"; Philipott's "Kent"; or any others of its literary predecessors or contemporaries. It could not have failed to produce useful results to the county it describes; as it was calculated to promote inquiry, awaken curiosity,