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   Bible Reading for August 03   
      
   Habakkuk 1   
   [1] The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. [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! [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.   
   [4] Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the   
   wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.   
   [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.   
   [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.   
   [7] They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall   
   proceed of themselves.   
   [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.   
   [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. [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.   
   [11] Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing   
   this his power unto his god. [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. [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?   
   [14] And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that   
   have no ruler over them?   
   [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. [16]   
   Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag;   
   because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. [17] Shall   
   they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?   
      
   Habakkuk 2   
   [1] I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to   
   see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. [2]   
   And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon   
   tables, that he may run that readeth it. [3] For the vision is yet for an   
   appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry,   
   wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.   
   [4] Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just   
   shall live by his faith.   
   [5] Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither   
   keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot   
   be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all   
   people:   
   [6] Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb   
   against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how   
   long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! [7] Shall they not rise   
   up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou   
   shalt be for booties unto them? [8] Because thou hast spoiled many nations,   
   all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and   
   for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. [9]   
   Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set   
   his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! [10] Thou   
   hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned   
   against thy soul.   
   [11] For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber   
   shall answer it.   
   [12] Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by   
   iniquity!   
   [13] Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in   
   the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? [14] For   
   the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the   
   waters cover the sea.   
   [15] Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to   
   him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!   
   [16] Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy   
   foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto   
   thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. [17] For the violence of   
   Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid,   
   because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of   
   all that dwell therein. [18] What profiteth the graven image that the maker   
   thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the   
   maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?   
   [19] Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it   
   shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no   
   breath at all in the midst of it. [20] But the LORD is in his holy temple: let   
   all the earth keep silence before him.   
      
   Habakkuk 3   
   [1] A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. [2] O LORD, I have heard   
   thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years,   
   in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.   
   [3] God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory   
   covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. [4] And his   
   brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there   
   was the hiding of his power. [5] Before him went the pestilence, and burning   
   coals went forth at his feet.   
   [6] He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the   
   nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did   
   bow: his ways are everlasting.   
   [7] I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of   
   Midian did tremble.   
   [8] Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the   
   rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses   
   and thy chariots of salvation? [9] Thy bow was made quite naked, according to   
   the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth   
   with rivers. [10] The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing   
   of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on   
   high. [11] The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of   
   thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. [12] Thou   
   didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in   
   anger.   
   [13] Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation   
   with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked,   
   by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. [14] Thou didst strike   
   through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind   
   to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.   
   [15] Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of   
   great waters.   
   [16] When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice:   
   rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest   
   in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them   
   with his troops.   
   [17] Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the   
   vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat;   
   the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the   
   stalls:   
   [18] Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.   
   [19] The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet,   
   and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my   
   stringed instruments.   
      
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