1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 Lord, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
4 Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
5 “Look amongst the nations, watch, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
6 For, behold, I raise up the Kasdim, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.