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\id HAB unfoldingWord Literal Text
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\h Habakkuk
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\toc1 The Book of Habakkuk
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\toc2 Habakkuk
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\toc3 Hab
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\mt Habakkuk
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\s5
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\c 1
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\m
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\v 1 The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
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\q
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\v 2 “Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear?
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\q I cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you will not save.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 Why do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing?
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\q Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up.
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\q
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\v 4 Therefore the law is weakened, and justice does not last for any time.
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\q For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out.”
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\s5
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\m
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\sp Yahweh replies to Habakkuk
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\q
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\v 5 “Look at the nations and examine them; be amazed and astonished!
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\q For I am surely about to do something in your days that you will not believe when it is reported to you.
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\q
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\v 6 For look! I am about to raise up the Chaldeans—that fierce and impetuous nation—
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\q they are marching throughout the breadth of the land to seize homes that were not their own.
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\q
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\v 7 They are terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from themselves.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, quicker than the evening wolves.
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\q So their horses stamp,
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\q and their horsemen come from a great distance—they fly like an eagle hurrying to eat.
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\q
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\v 9 They all come for violence;
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\q their multitudes go like the desert wind, and they gather captives like sand.
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\f + \ft The Hebrew text translated here as \fqa their multitudes go like the desert wind \fqa* is very difficult; many modern versions have other interpretations. \f*
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 So they mock kings, and rulers are only a mockery for them.
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\q They laugh at every stronghold, for they heap up earth and take them.
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\q
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\v 11 Then the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might is their god.”
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\s5
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\m
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\sp Habakkuk asks Yahweh another question
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\q
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\v 12 “Are you not from ancient times, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die.
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\q Yahweh has ordained them for judgment, and you, Rock, have established them for correction.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil, and you are not able to look on wrongdoing with favor;
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\q why then have you looked favorably on those who betray?
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\q Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they are?
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\q
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\v 14 You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 He brings all of them up with a fishhook;
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\q he drags men away in his fishnet;
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\q he gathers them together in his dragnet;
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\q so he rejoices and he is glad.
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\q
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\v 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
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\q and burns incense to his dragnet,
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\q for by his net he lives in luxury,
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\q and his food is the richest kind.
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\q
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\v 17 Will he therefore keep emptying his net,
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\q and will he continually slaughter the nations without mercy?”
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\s5
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\c 2
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\q
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\v 1 I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the watchtower,
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\q and I will watch carefully to see what he will say to me
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\q and how I should turn from my complaint.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa how I should turn from my complaint \fqa* , which is what the Hebrew text has, some modern versions have \fqa how I should answer when he replies to my complaint \fqa* or \fqa how I should answer when he rebukes me \fqa* . \f*
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\s5
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\m
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\v 2 Yahweh answered me and said,
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\q “Record this vision, and write plainly on the tablets so that the one reading them might run.
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\q
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\v 3 For the vision is yet for a future time and will finally speak and not fail.
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\q Though it delays, wait for it. For it will surely come and will not tarry.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 Look! The one whose desires are not right within him is puffed up. But the righteous will live by his faith.
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\m
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\q
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\v 5 For wine is a betrayer of the arrogant young man so that he will not abide,
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\q but enlarges his desire like the grave and, like death, is never satisfied.
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\q He gathers to himself every nation and gathers up for himself all of the peoples.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 Will not all these create a saying to ridicule him and a taunting song about him, saying,
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\q ‘Woe to the one increasing what is not his! For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?’
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\q2
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\v 7 Will the ones biting at you not rise up suddenly, and the ones terrifying you awaken?
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\q2 You will become a victim for them.
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\q2
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\v 8 Because you have plundered many peoples, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you.
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\q2 For you have shed human blood and acted with violence against the land, the cities, and all who live in them.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 9 ‘Woe to the one who carves out evil gains for his house,
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\q2 so he can set his nest on high to keep himself safe from the hand of evil.’
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\q2
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\v 10 You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against yourself.
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\q2
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\v 11 For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters of timber will answer them,
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 ‘Woe to the one who builds a city with blood, and who establishes a town in iniquity.’
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\q2
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\v 13 Is it not from Yahweh of hosts
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\q2 that peoples labor for fire and all the other nations weary themselves for nothing?
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\q2
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\v 14 Yet the land will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 ‘Woe to the one who forces his neighbors to drink—
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\q you express your anger \f + \ft There is some question about whether the Hebrew should be translated as \fqa anger \fqa* , or as \fqa wineskin \fqa* . \f* over and you make them drunk
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\q in order to look at their nakedness.’
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\q2
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\v 16 You will be filled with shame instead of glory.
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\q Now it is your turn! Drink, and you will expose your uncircumcised foreskin!
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\q2 The cup in Yahweh’s right hand is coming around to you,
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\q2 and disgrace will cover your glory.
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\s5
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\q2
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\v 17 The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you and the destruction of animals will terrify you.
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\q2 For you have shed human blood and you have acted with violence against the land, the cities, and all who live in them.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 18 What does the carved figure profit you? For the one who has carved it, or who casts a figure from molten metal, is a teacher of lies;
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\q for he trusts his own handiwork when he makes these mute gods.
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\q
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\v 19 ‘Woe to the one saying to the wood, Wake up! Or to the silent stone, Arise!’ Do these things teach?
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\q See, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all within it.
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\q
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\v 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple! Be silent before him, all the land.”
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\s5
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\c 3
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\m
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\v 1 The prayer of Habakkuk the prophet:
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\f + \ft The Hebrew text adds the expression \fqa on shigionoth \fqa* , which may refer to musical directions for singers. \f*
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\q
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\v 2 Yahweh, I have heard your report, and I am afraid.
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\q Yahweh, revive your work in the midst of these times; in the midst of these times make it known;
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\q remember to have compassion in your wrath.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran.
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\qs Selah \qs*
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\q His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 With brightness like the light, two-pronged rays flash from his hand;
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\q and there he hid his power.
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\q
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\v 5 Deadly disease went before him,
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\q and the plague followed him.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations.
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\q Even the eternal mountains were shattered, and the everlasting hills bowed down.
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\q His path is everlasting.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the fabric of the tents in the land of Midian trembling.
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\q
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\v 8 Was Yahweh angry at the rivers? Was your wrath against the rivers,
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\q or your fury against the sea,
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\q when you rode upon your horses and your victorious chariots?
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\s5
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\q
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\v 9 You have brought out your bow without a cover; you put arrows to your bow!
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\qs Selah \qs*
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\q You divided the earth with rivers.
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\q
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\v 10 The mountains saw you and twisted in pain.
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\q Downpours of water passed over them; the deep sea raised a shout.
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\q It lifted up its waves.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 11 The sun and moon stood still in their high places
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\q at the flash of your arrows as they fly,
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\q at the lightning of your flashing spear.
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\q
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\v 12 You have marched over the earth with indignation. In wrath you have threshed the nations.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed one.
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\q You shatter the head of the house of the wicked to lay bare from the base up to the neck.
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\qs Selah\qs*
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 You have pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows since they came like a storm to scatter us,
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\q their gloating was like one who devours the poor in a hiding place.
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\q
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\v 15 You have traveled over the sea with your horses, and heaped up the great waters.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 16 I heard, and my inner parts trembled! My lips quivered at the sound.
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\q Decay comes into my bones, and under myself I tremble
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\q as I wait quietly for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 17 Though the fig tree does not bud
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\q2 and there is no produce from the vines;
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\q2 and though the produce of the olive tree disappoints
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\q2 and the fields yield no food;
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\q2 and though the flock is cut off from the fold
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\q2 and there are no cattle in the stalls, this is what I will do.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 18 Still, I will rejoice in Yahweh.
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\q2 I will be joyful because of the God of my salvation.
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\q
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\v 19 The Lord Yahweh is my strength
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\q2 and he makes my feet like the deer’s.
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\q2 He makes me go forward on my high places.
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\q3 —To the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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