The Prophet’s Question

O Lord, how long shall I cry,
(A)And You will not hear?
Even cry out to You, (B)“Violence!”
And You will (C)not save.
Why do You show me iniquity,
And cause me to see [a]trouble?
For plundering and violence are before me;
There is strife, and contention arises.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:3 Or toil

The Just Live by Faith

Then the Lord answered me and said:

(A)“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
For (B)the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will (C)not lie.
Though it tarries, (D)wait for it;
Because it will (E)surely come,
It will not tarry.

“Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the (F)just shall live by his faith.

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