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\c 1
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\v 1 This is the conversation between Habakkuk the prophet and Yahweh.
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\q1
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\v 2 I said, "Yahweh, how long must I continue to call to you for help before you respond?
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\q1 I cry out, "The people are acting so violently!"
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\q2 but you do not rescue me!
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\q1
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\v 3 Why do you make me watch people do what is wrong, but you do nothing?
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\q1 I see people destroying things and acting violently; they fight and quarrel everywhere.
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\q1
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\v 4 No one obeys the law of Moses, and no one acts in a right way for very long.
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\q1 Wicked people always defeat the righteous people in the courts,
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\q2 because judges never make fair decisions."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh replied to me,
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\q1 "This is happening, but look around at what is happening in the other nations.
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\q2 If you look, you will be amazed, and even astonished, since I am doing something
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\q1 during this time that you would never have believed would happen,
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\q2 even if someone told you about it.
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\q1
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\v 6 Very soon I will bring the soldiers of Babylonia, who are fierce and swift.
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\q1 They will march across the entire earth
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\q2 and conquer many other countries.
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\q1
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\v 7 They are a people whom others fear very much,
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\q2 and they do whatever they want to,
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\q2 because they believe that they are very great and that they have the right to judge everyone else.
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\q1
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\v 8 The horses that pull their chariots go faster than leopards,
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\q2 and they are fiercer than wolves are in the evening.
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\q1 The horses on which the soldiers ride gallop swiftly;
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\q2 the soldiers riding them come from distant places.
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\q1 They are like eagles that swoop down to snatch their prey.
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\q1
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\v 9 As they ride along,
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\q2 they are determined to act violently.
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\q1 They advance eagerly, as fast as the wind over the desert,
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\q2 and gather up as many prisoners as there are grains of sand!
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\q1
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\v 10 They make fun of kings and princes of other countries,
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\q2 and they ridicule all the cities that have high walls around them.
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\q1 They pile up earth around those cities to capture them.
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\q1
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\v 11 They rush past like the wind,
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\q2 and then they go to attack other cities.
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\q1 But they are very guilty,
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\q2 because they think that their own power is their god!"
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\q1
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\v 12 Then I said, "Yahweh, are you not the eternal God?
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\q2 You are my Holy One, so we will not die.
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\q1 So why have you sent those men from Babylonia to judge us and kill us?
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\q2 You are like our Rock, on top of which we can hide,
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\q2 so why have you sent them to punish us?
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\q1
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\v 13 You are pure, and you cannot endure looking at what is evil,
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\q2 so why are you ignoring men who are treacherous?
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\q1 Why do you do nothing
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\q2 to punish those wicked men from Babylonia,
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\q2 who destroy people who are more righteous than they are?
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\q1
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\v 14 They treat us like fish in the sea,
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\q2 or like other creatures in the sea, that have no ruler.
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\q1
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\v 15 The soldiers of Babylonia think that we are fish for them to pull out of the sea with hooks
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\q2 or to catch in their nets, while they rejoice and celebrate.
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\q1
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\v 16 If they catch us, they will worship their weapons with which they captured us
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\q2 and offer sacrifices to them and burn incense in front of them!
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\q1 They will say, 'These weapons have enabled us to become rich and eat expensive food.'
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\q1
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\v 17 Will you allow them to continue to conquer people forever?
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\q2 Will you allow them to destroy people of other nations without any mercy for anyone?"
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