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Habakkuk Chapter 1

Habakkuk
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Habakkuk

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The prophet Habakkuk records his complaint that the wicked prosper while the righteous are persecuted, and he questions why God permits such injustice. He is instructed to trust in God’s justice and not be afraid, highlighting the theme of relying on God’s righteousness despite human suffering.

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(1) The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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Isaiah 22:1Nahum 1:1

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Jeremiah 23:33Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 23:38

(2) O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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Psalms 13:1Psalms 13:2Psalms 74:9Psalms 74:10Psalms 94:3Revelation 6:10Psalms 22:1Psalms 22:2Jeremiah 14:9Lamentations 3:8

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26Psalms 13:1Psalms 18:27Proverbs 6:9Judges 4:8

(3) Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
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Psalms 12:1Psalms 12:2Psalms 55:9Psalms 55:10Psalms 55:11Psalms 73:3Psalms 73:4Psalms 73:5Psalms 73:6Psalms 73:7Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9

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Romans 14:10I Samuel 1:8Job 7:21Psalms 43:2

(4) Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
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Psalms 11:3Psalms 119:126Mark 7:9Romans 3:31I Kings 21:13Job 21:7Psalms 22:16Psalms 58:1Psalms 58:2Psalms 59:2Psalms 59:4Psalms 82:1

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Job 8:3Deuteronomy 8:3Deuteronomy 16:19Deuteronomy 10:18II Samuel 14:13II Samuel 14:14

(5) Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
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Deuteronomy 4:27Jeremiah 9:25Jeremiah 9:26Jeremiah 25:14Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16Jeremiah 25:17Jeremiah 25:18Jeremiah 25:19Jeremiah 25:20Jeremiah 25:21Jeremiah 25:22

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John 10:38I Corinthians 14:22Jeremiah 4:30Acts 13:41I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(6) For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
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Deuteronomy 28:49Deuteronomy 28:50Deuteronomy 28:51Deuteronomy 28:52II Kings 24:2II Chronicles 36:6II Chronicles 36:17Isaiah 23:13Isaiah 39:6Isaiah 39:7Jeremiah 1:15Jeremiah 1:16

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Jeremiah 5:15Numbers 18:9Judges 11:24Obadiah 1:19

(7) They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
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Jeremiah 39:5Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 39:7Jeremiah 39:8Jeremiah 39:9Jeremiah 52:9Jeremiah 52:10Jeremiah 52:11Jeremiah 52:25Jeremiah 52:26Jeremiah 52:27Deuteronomy 5:19

(8) 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 hasteth to eat.
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Deuteronomy 28:49Isaiah 5:26Isaiah 5:27Isaiah 5:28Jeremiah 5:6Zephaniah 3:3Jeremiah 4:13Lamentations 4:19Ezekiel 17:3Ezekiel 17:12Hosea 8:1Matthew 24:28

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I Kings 10:26II Chronicles 1:14Jeremiah 48:40Jeremiah 49:22Exodus 14:9Exodus 14:23

(9) They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
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Habakkuk 1:6Habakkuk 2:5Habakkuk 2:6Habakkuk 2:7Habakkuk 2:8Habakkuk 2:9Habakkuk 2:10Habakkuk 2:11Habakkuk 2:12Habakkuk 2:13Deuteronomy 28:51Deuteronomy 28:52

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Exodus 10:13Ezekiel 16:53Psalms 78:26Isaiah 27:8Ezekiel 8:16Ezekiel 47:18

(10) 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.
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II Kings 24:12II Kings 25:6II Kings 25:7II Chronicles 36:6II Chronicles 36:10Isaiah 14:16Jeremiah 32:24Jeremiah 33:4Jeremiah 52:4Jeremiah 52:5Jeremiah 52:6Jeremiah 52:7

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Zechariah 9:3Psalms 68:27Isaiah 31:9Daniel 11:5Genesis 31:52Isaiah 28:7

(11) Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
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Daniel 4:30Daniel 4:31Daniel 4:32Daniel 4:33Daniel 4:34Daniel 5:3Daniel 5:4Daniel 5:20

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Leviticus 27:33

(12) Art 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.
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Deuteronomy 33:27Psalms 90:2Psalms 93:2Isaiah 40:28Isaiah 57:15Lamentations 5:19Micah 5:2I Timothy 1:17I Timothy 6:16Hebrews 1:10Hebrews 1:11Hebrews 1:12

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(13) Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
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Job 15:15Psalms 5:4Psalms 5:5Psalms 11:4Psalms 11:5Psalms 11:6Psalms 11:7Psalms 34:15Psalms 34:16I Peter 1:15I Peter 1:16Psalms 10:1

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Isaiah 33:1Psalms 125:3Isaiah 24:16Jeremiah 12:1Ezekiel 18:20Ezekiel 18:26

(14) And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
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Proverbs 6:7

(15) 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.
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Jeremiah 16:16Ezekiel 29:4Ezekiel 29:5Amos 4:2Matthew 17:27Psalms 10:9Luke 5:5Luke 5:6Luke 5:7Luke 5:8Luke 5:9Luke 5:10

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Psalms 68:3Isaiah 66:10Zechariah 10:7Psalms 10:9

(16) Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
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Habakkuk 1:11Deuteronomy 8:17Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14Isaiah 10:15Isaiah 37:24Ezekiel 28:3Ezekiel 29:3Daniel 4:30Daniel 5:23

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II Kings 16:15I Kings 8:64Leviticus 3:9Leviticus 4:26Leviticus 4:31Leviticus 4:35

(17) Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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Habakkuk 1:9Habakkuk 1:10Habakkuk 2:5Habakkuk 2:6Habakkuk 2:7Habakkuk 2:8Habakkuk 2:17Isaiah 14:16Isaiah 14:17Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:10Jeremiah 25:11

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