| 1:2 |
O LordJehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save. |
| 1:3 |
Why dost thou shewshow me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for spoilingdestruction and violence are before me:; and there is strife, and contention riseth up. |
| 1:4 |
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgementjustice doth never go forth:; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore judgementjustice goeth forth perverted. |
| 1:5 |
Behold ye among the nations, and regardlook, and wonder marvelously:marvellously; for I workam working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you. |
| 1:6 |
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation;, whichthat march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. |
| 1:7 |
They are terrible and dreadful:; their judgementjudgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. |
| 1:8 |
Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen spreadpress themselvesproudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour. |
| 1:9 |
They come all of them for violence; theirthe faces are set eagerlyof astheir thefaces eastis windforwards; and they gather captives as the sand. |
| 1:10 |
Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him:; he derideth every strong holdstronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it. |
| 1:11 |
Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty:, even he whose might is his god. |
| 1:12 |
Art not thou from everlasting, O LordJehovah my God, minemy Holy One? we shall not die. O LordJehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgementjudgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction. |
| 1:16 |
Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his meatfood plenteous. |
| 1:17 |
Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not spare to slay the nations continually? |
| 2:2 |
And theJehovah Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablestablets, that he may run that readeth it. |
| 2:4 |
Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him:; but the justrighteous shall live by his faith. |
| 2:5 |
Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer, a haughty man, and that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as hellSheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples. |
| 2:7 |
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for bootiesbooty unto them? |
| 2:8 |
Because thou hast spoiledplundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall spoilplunder thee;, because of mens blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein. |
| 2:10 |
Thou hast consulteddevised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul. |
| 2:12 |
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablishethestablisheth a city by iniquity! |
| 2:13 |
Behold, is it not of theJehovah Lord of hosts that the peoples labourlabor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? |
| 2:14 |
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LordJehovah, as the waters cover the sea. |
| 2:15 |
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbourneighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! |
| 2:16 |
Thou art filled with shame, forand not glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised:; the cup of theJehovahs LordS right hand shall become turnedround unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory. |
| 2:18 |
What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, andeven the teacher of lies, that thehe makerthat offashioneth hisits workform trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? |
| 2:19 |
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is laidoverlaid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. |
| 2:20 |
But theJehovah Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. |
| 3:2 |
O LordJehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O LordJehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years,; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy. |
| 3:3 |
God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, andAnd the earth was full of his praise. |
| 3:4 |
And his brightness was as the light; He had rays coming forth from his hand:; And there was the hiding of his power. |
| 3:5 |
Before him went the pestilence, andAnd fiery bolts went forth at his feet. |
| 3:6 |
He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations:; And the eternal mountains were scattered,; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old. |
| 3:7 |
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction:; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. |
| 3:8 |
Was theJehovah Lord displeased againstwith the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers, Or thy wrath against the sea, That thou didst ride upon thinethy horses, Upon thy chariots of salvation? |
| 3:10 |
The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by:; The deep uttered hisits voice, andAnd lifted up hisits hands on high. |
| 3:11 |
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation;, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear. |
| 3:12 |
Thou didst march through the land in indignation,; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger. |
| 3:13 |
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou woundedstwoundest the head out of the house of the wicked man, Laying bare the foundation even unto the neck. Selah |
| 3:14 |
Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me:; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. |
| 3:15 |
Thou didst tread the sea with thinethy horses, The heap of mighty waters. |
| 3:16 |
I heard, and my bellybody trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness enteredentereth into my bones, and I trembledtremble in my place:; ThatBecause I shouldmust restwait inquietly for the day of trouble, WhenFor itthe comethcoming up againstof the people whichthat invadeth him in troopsus. |
| 3:17 |
For though the fig tree shall not blossomflourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labourlabor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meatfood; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: |
| 3:18 |
Yet I will rejoice in the LordJehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation. |
| 3:19 |
Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength,; And he maketh my feet like hinds feet, And will make me to walk upon minemy high places. For the Chief Musician, on my stringed instruments. |