1 The divine revelation that the prophet Habakkuk saw.
2 How long, O Lord, am I to cry for help,
3 Why do you make me see wrongdoing?
4 That is why your teaching is numbed,
5 Look among the nations and watch.
6 I am going to send the Babylonians,
7 They will be terrifying and fearsome.
8 Their horses will be faster than leopards
9 They will all come for violence.
10 They will make fun of kings and treat rulers as a joke.
11 They will move quickly and pass through like the wind.
12 Didn’t you exist before time began, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
13 Your eyes are too pure to look at evil.
14 You make all people like the fish in the sea,
15 The Babylonians pull them all up with fishhooks,
16 That is why they sacrifice to their nets and burn incense to their dragnets.
17 Will they keep on emptying their nets