| 1:2 |
How long, O Lord, will I call for help, And ThouYou wiltwill not hear? I cry out to TheeYou, Violence! Yet ThouYou dostdo not save. |
| 1:3 |
Why dostdo ThouYou make me see iniquity, And cause me to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; Strife exists and contention arises. |
| 1:4 |
Therefore, the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore, justice comes out perverted. |
| 1:5 |
Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing something in your days— You would not believe if you were told. |
| 1:7 |
They are dreaded and feared.; Their justice and authority originate with themselves. |
| 1:10 |
They mock at kings, And rulers are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every fortress, And heap up rubble to capture it. |
| 1:12 |
ArtAre ThouYou not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. ThouYou, O Lord, hasthave appointed them to judge; And ThouYou, O Rock, hasthave established them to correct. |
| 1:13 |
ThineYour eyes are too pure to approve evil, And ThouYou canstcan not look on wickedness with favor. Why dostdo ThouYou look with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why artare ThouYou silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they? |
| 1:14 |
Why hasthave ThouYou made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them? |
| 1:15 |
The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore, they rejoice and are glad. |
| 1:16 |
Therefore, they offer a sacrifice to their net. And burn incense to their fishing net; Because through these things their catch is large, And their food is plentiful. |
| 2:1 |
I WILLwill stand on my guard post And station myself on the rampart; And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, And how I may reply when I am reproved. |
| 2:3 |
For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal, and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay. |
| 2:6 |
Will not all of these take up a taunt song against him, Even mockery and insinuations against him, And say, Woe to him who increases what is not his— For how long— And makes himself rich with loans? |
| 2:8 |
Because you have looted many nations, All the remainder of the peoples will loot you— Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants. |
| 2:9 |
Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house To put his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of calamity! |
| 2:19 |
Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, Awake! To a dumbmute stone, Arise! And that is your teacher? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath at all inside it. |
| 3:2 |
Lord, I have heard the report about TheeYou and I fear. O Lord, revive ThyYour work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy. |
| 3:8 |
Did the Lord rage against the rivers, Or was ThineYour anger against the rivers, Or was ThyYour wrath against the sea, That ThouYou didstrode ride on ThyYour horses, On ThyYour chariots of salvation? |
| 3:9 |
ThyYour bow was made bare, The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah. ThouYou didstcleaved cleave the earth with rivers. |
| 3:10 |
The mountains saw TheeYou and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands. |
| 3:11 |
Sun and moon stood in their places; They went away at the light of ThineYour arrows, At the radiance of ThyYour gleaming spear. |
| 3:12 |
In indignation ThouYou didstmarched march through the earth; In anger ThouYou didsttrampled trample the nations. |
| 3:13 |
ThouYou didstwent go forth for the salvation of ThyYour people, For the salvation of ThineYour anointed. ThouYou didststruck strike the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah. |
| 3:14 |
ThouYou didstpierced pierce with his own spears The head of his throngs. They stormed in to scatter us; Their exultation was like those Who devour the oppressed in secret. |
| 3:15 |
ThouYou didsttrampled tread on the sea with ThyYour horses, On the surge of many waters. |
| 3:17 |
Though the fig tree should not blossom, And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail, And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold, And there be no cattle in the stalls, |