Habakkuk 1:1-4

Common English Bible

1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

The prophet complains

²Lord, how long will I call for help and you not listen?
        I cry out to you, “Violence!”
            but you don’t deliver us.
³Why do you show me injustice and look at anguish
        so that devastation and violence are before me?
There is strife, and conflict abounds.
⁴        The Instruction is ineffective.
            Justice does not endure
            because the wicked surround the righteous.
        Justice becomes warped.

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Habakkuk 2:1-4

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2 I will take my post;
        I will position myself on the fortress.
        I will keep watch to see what the Lord says to me
        and how he^[a] will respond to my complaint.

The Lord responds

²Then the Lord answered me and said,

Write a vision, and make it plain upon a tablet
    so that a runner can read it.^[b]
³        There is still a vision for the appointed time;
            it testifies to the end;
                it does not deceive.^[c]
    If it delays, wait for it;
        for it is surely coming; it will not be late.
⁴Some people’s desires are truly audacious;^[d]
            they don’t do the right thing.
        But the righteous person will live honestly.

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Footnotes

Habakkuk 2:1 Syr he; MT I
Habakkuk 2:2 Or a reader can run with it
Habakkuk 2:3 Heb uncertain; antecedants to pronouns in 2:3-6 are uncertain.
Habakkuk 2:4 Heb uncertain

Luke 19:1-10

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A rich tax collector

19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through town. ²A man there named Zacchaeus, a ruler among tax collectors, was rich. ³He was trying to see who Jesus was, but, being a short man, he couldn’t because of the crowd. ⁴So he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree so he could see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. ⁵When Jesus came to that spot, he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, come down at once. I must stay in your home today.” ⁶So Zacchaeus came down at once, happy to welcome Jesus.

⁷Everyone who saw this grumbled, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”

⁸Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone, I repay them four times as much.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this household because he too is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰The Human One^[a] came to seek and save the lost.”

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