The Book of Habakkuk

“The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.”

“O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!”

“Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are…”

“Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefo…”

“Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not…”

“For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to p…”