The Prophet Questions God’s Judgments

The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.

They are terrible and dreadful; Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, And more fierce than evening wolves. Their chargers charge ahead; Their cavalry comes from afar; They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

The Prophet’s Second Question

Are You not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction.

“Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster!

For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it.

The Prophet’s Prayer

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, on Shigionoth.

God came from Teman, The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of His praise.

His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, And there His power was hidden.

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For salvation with Your Anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah

A Hymn of Faith

Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls—