{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/habakkuk/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T08:52:56.867Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Habakkuk","bookSlug":"habakkuk","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out to you of violence, and you will not save!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told you."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hastens to eat."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power to his god."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why look you on them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Habakkuk 1 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Habakkuk 1](https://primebible.com/akjv/habakkuk/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/habakkuk/1 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}