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Book of Habakkuk, Chapter 1

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Chapter 1 of Habakkuk—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ The pronouncement that Ha·bakʹkuk the prophet visioned:
  2. How long, O Jehovah, must I cry for help, and you do not hear?1 [How long] shall I call to you for aid from violence, and you do not save?2
  3. Why is it that you make me see what is hurtful, and you keep looking upon mere trouble? And [why] are despoiling and violence in front of me, and [why] does quarreling occur, and [why] is strife carried?3
  4. ¶ Therefore law grows numb, and justice never goes forth.4 Because the wicked one is surrounding the righteous one, for that reason justice goes forth crooked.5
  5. ¶ “See, YOU people, among the nations, and look on, and stare in amazement at one another.6 Be amazed; for there is an activity that one is carrying on[a] in YOUR days, [which] YOU people will not believe although it is related.[b]7
  6. For here I am raising up the Chal·deʹans,8 the nation bitter and impetuous, which is going to the wide-open places of earth in order to take possession of residences not belonging to it.9
  7. Frightful and fear-inspiring it is. From itself its own justice and its own dignity go forth.10
  8. And its horses have proved swifter than leopards, and they have proved fiercer than evening wolves.11 And its steeds have pawed the ground, and from far away its own steeds[c] come. They fly like the eagle speeding to eat [something].12
  9. In its entirety it comes for mere violence.13 The assembling of their faces is as [the] east wind,[d]14 and it gathers up captives just like the sand.
  10. And for its part, it jeers kings themselves, and high officials are something laughable to it.15 For its part, it laughs even at every fortified place,16 and it piles up dust and captures it.
  11. At that time it will certainly move onward [like] wind[e] and will pass through and will actually become guilty.17 This its power is due to its god.”[f]18
  12. ¶ Are you not from long ago, O Jehovah?19 O my God,[g] my Holy One, you do not die.[h]20 O Jehovah, for a judgment you have set it; and, O Rock,21 for a reproving22 you have founded it.
  13. ¶ You are too pure in eyes to see what is bad; and to look on trouble you are not able.23 Why is it that you look on those dealing treacherously,24 that you keep silent when someone wicked swallows up someone more righteous than he is?25
  14. And [why] do you make earthling man like the fishes of the sea, like creeping things over whom no one is ruling?26
  15. All these he has brought up with a mere fishhook;27 he drags them away in his dragnet, and he gathers them in his fishing net.28 That is why he rejoices and is joyful.29
  16. That is why he offers sacrifice to his dragnet and makes sacrificial smoke to his fishing net; for by them his portion is well oiled, and his food is healthful.[i]30
  17. Is that why he will empty out his dragnet, and does he have to kill nations constantly, while he shows no compassion?31

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “One is carrying on,” M; LXXSy, “I am carrying on.”
  2. ^ “Behold it, you scorners, and look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish away, because I am working a work in your days, which you will by no means believe even if anyone relates it in detail,” LXX. See Ac 13:41.
  3. ^ Or, “horsemen.”
  4. ^ “As [the] east wind,” T and Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QpHab) discovered in 1947; M, “to the east”; Vg, “as a burning wind.”
  5. ^ “Wind.” Heb., ruʹach; Gr., pneuʹma; Lat., spiʹri·tus.
  6. ^ “To its god.” Heb., leʼ·lo·hohʹ; Gr., the·oiʹ; Lat., deʹi.
  7. ^ “My God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ, pl.
  8. ^ “You do not die.” Heb., loʼ ta·muthʹ. This was the original reading, but the Sopherim changed it to read loʼ na·muthʹ, “we shall not die”; T, “your word [Aram., mehm·rakhʹ] will stand (endure) to times indefinite.” See App 2B.
  9. ^ Or, “fat.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ps 13:1; Re 6:10
  2. ^ Ps 22:1; 74:10; Ec 5:8
  3. ^ Ec 4:1; Ro 9:22; 2Pe 2:8; 3:9
  4. ^ Jb 12:6; Ps 12:8; Ec 8:11; Mt 23:23
  5. ^ Jb 33:27; Pr 29:2; Is 1:21; Mt 26:59; Ac 7:52
  6. ^ La 4:12
  7. ^ Is 28:21; 29:14; Ac 13:41
  8. ^ Je 22:7; 46:2
  9. ^ De 28:49; Je 5:15; 6:22; Eze 23:23
  10. ^ Je 39:5; 52:9; Da 5:19
  11. ^ Je 5:6
  12. ^ Je 4:13; La 4:19; Eze 17:3
  13. ^ De 28:51; Je 25:9
  14. ^ Is 27:8; Eze 17:10
  15. ^ 2Ki 24:12; 2Ch 36:17
  16. ^ Je 32:24; 52:7
  17. ^ Is 47:6; Je 51:24; Zc 1:15
  18. ^ Da 5:4
  19. ^ Ps 90:2; 93:2; Re 1:8
  20. ^ 1Ti 1:17; Re 15:3
  21. ^ De 32:4; 1Sa 2:2; Ps 18:2
  22. ^ Je 10:24; 30:11; Heb 12:5
  23. ^ Ps 5:4; Is 59:2; 1Pe 1:15
  24. ^ Je 12:1
  25. ^ Ps 35:22; 37:14; 50:21
  26. ^ Pr 6:7; Is 63:19
  27. ^ Ec 9:12
  28. ^ Ps 10:9; Mc 7:2
  29. ^ Je 50:11
  30. ^ De 8:17; Ps 37:1
  31. ^ 2Ch 36:17; Na 3:7

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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