Habakkuk 1:12-2:1
International Standard Version
The Prophet’s Second Complaint
12 “Haven’t you existed forever,
Lord my God, my Holy One?
We won’t die!
Lord, you’ve prepared them[a] for judgment;
Rock, you’ve sentenced them[b] to correction.
13 Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil;
and you cannot tolerate wickedness.
So why do you tolerate the treacherous?
And why do you stay silent
while the wicked devour those who are more righteous than they are?
14 “You have fashioned mankind like fish in the ocean,
like creeping things that have no ruler.
15 The adversary[c] captures them with a hook,
gathering them up in a fishing net.
He collects them with a dragnet,
rejoicing and gloating over his catch.[d]
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his fishing net,
and burns incense in the presence of his dragnet,
because by them his assets increase
and he gets plenty of food.
17 Is he to continue to empty his fishing net?
Will he ever stop killing entire[e] nations without mercy?”
Habakkuk Waits for God’s Answer
2 “I will stand at my guard post
and station myself on a tower.
I will wait and see what the Lord[f] will say about me
and what I[g] will answer when he reprimands me.[h]”
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:12 I.e. the Babylonian invaders
- Habakkuk 1:12 I.e. the Babylonian invaders
- Habakkuk 1:15 I.e. the Babylonian invaders
- Habakkuk 1:15 The Heb. lacks over his catch
- Habakkuk 1:17 The Heb. lacks entire
- Habakkuk 2:1 The Heb. lacks the Lord
- Habakkuk 2:1 Syr he
- Habakkuk 2:1 Lit. answer at my reprimand
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