{"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/kjv/habakkuk/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:55:14.543Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 thou wilt not hear! <i>even</i> cry out unto thee <i>of</i> violence, and thou wilt not save!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause <i>me</i> to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence <i>are</i> before me: and there are <i>that</i> raise up strife and contention."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for <i>I</i> will work a work in your days, <i>which</i> ye will not believe, though it be told <i>you</i>."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, <i>that</i> bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces <i>that are</i> not theirs."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They <i>are</i> 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 <i>that</i> hasteth to eat."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up <i>as</i> 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 unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Then shall <i>his</i> mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, <i>imputing</i> this his power unto his god."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"<i>Art</i> thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"<i>Thou art</i> of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, <i>and</i> holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth <i>the man that is</i> more righteous than he?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, <i>that have</i> 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 unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion <i>is</i> 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 (KJV)","markdown":"[Habakkuk 1](https://primebible.com/kjv/habakkuk/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/habakkuk/1 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}