| 1:1 | The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. | |
| 1:2 | O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! cry out to thee violence, and thou wilt not save! | |
| 1:3 | Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause to behold grievance? for devastation and violence before me: and there are raise strife and contention. | |
| 1:4 | Therefore the law is slackened, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth encompass the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. | |
| 1:5 | Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for will work a work in your days, ye will not believe though it be told . | |
| 1:6 | For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places not theirs. | |
| 1:7 | They terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves. | |
| 1:8 | Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle hasteth to eat. | |
| 1:9 | They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. | |
| 1:10 | And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. | |
| 1:11 | Then shall mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, this his power to his god. | |
| 1:12 | thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. | |
| 1:13 | of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, keepest silence when the wicked devoureth more righteous than he? | |
| 1:14 | And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals no ruler over them? | |
| 1:15 | They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. | |
| 1:16 | Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion fat, and their food plenteous. | |
| 1:17 | Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? | |