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Habakkuk · read by David Platt
32 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
Habakkuk 1
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How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, "Violence!" but You do not save?Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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"Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god."Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?Read from ESV · Questioning God
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You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?Read from ESV · Questioning God
Habakkuk 2
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I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.Read from ESV · Questioning God
Habakkuk 3
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His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?Read from ESV · Questioning God
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You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.Read from ESV · Questioning God
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You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. SelahRead from ESV · Questioning God
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Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,Read from ESV · Questioning God
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yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!Read from ESV · Questioning God