# Habakkuk 1

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/habakkuk/1

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. The burden that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2. How long, Yahweh, must I cry out while you do not hear? I cry to you of violence, but you do not save.
3. Why do you make me see evil and trouble? You look on destruction and violence before me; strife and contention rise up.
4. Therefore the law fails, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice prevails perverted.
5. Look among the nations and observe; be astonished and marvel, for I am doing a work in your days that you will not believe even if it is declared.
6. Indeed, look, I am rousing the Chaldeans, the fierce and impetuous nation advancing across the earth's broad reaches to seize habitations not their own.
7. They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and dignity arise from themselves.
8. Their horses outrun leopards and grow fiercer than evening wolves, while their horsemen press ahead—yes, their horsemen come from afar, flying like an eagle hastening to devour.
9. All come for violence, their faces devouring as they press eastward, gathering captives like sand.
10. He scorns kings, and princes are a scorn to him; he laughs at every fortress, heaping up dust and capturing it.
11. Then his spirit changes, he passes by and becomes guilty—this one whose strength is his god.
12. Aren't you from of old, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you set him for judgment; Rock, you established him for correction.
13. Your eyes are too pure to see evil, unable to look on iniquity—why do you gaze at traitors, stay silent while the wicked devours one more righteous than himself?
14. You make humans like fish in the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15. He hauls them all up with the hook, drags them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet; thus he rejoices and exults.
16. Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his portion is fat and his food rich.
17. Will he therefore draw his net continually to kill nations without pity?

## Nearby chapters

[Nahum 3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/nahum/3.md)
[Habakkuk 2](https://www.lumin.faith/read/habakkuk/2.md)

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