1Habakkuk the prophet saw some heavy stuff, no cap.

2Yo Lord, how long I gotta scream and you’re just ghosting me? Like, I’m shouting about the violence and you ain’t saving anyone!

3Why you showing me all this bad stuff? It’s just chaos and drama all around, and people are starting beef.

4So like, the law is slacking hard, and justice is MIA: the wicked are vibing around the righteous, and it’s just wrong vibes everywhere.

5Check it, peeps! Look at the nations and be shook: I’m about to do something wild in your days, and you won’t even believe it, fr.

6I’m raising up the Chaldeans, this savage nation that’s coming through to snatch what isn’t theirs.

7They’re straight-up terrifying: their judgment is all on them, like, they’re their own hype.

8Their horses are faster than leopards and fiercer than wolves at night; their riders are coming from far and are ready to swoop in like eagles.

9They’re all about that violence: their faces are like the east wind, gathering captives like it’s sand.

10They’ll roast kings and laugh at princes; they’ll make fun of strongholds, just piling up dust and taking it.

11Then their vibe switches up, and they’ll pass through, flexing their power like it’s from their god.

12Aren’t you eternal, Lord my God, the Holy One? We’re not about to die. You set these folks up for judgment, and you’re all about that correction, mighty God.

13You’re too pure to even look at evil, so why you watching those shady characters and staying silent while the wicked munch on the righteous?

14You treat people like fish in the sea, with no one to lead them, sus.

15They’re reeling them in with their nets, catching them and vibing; that’s why they’re all hyped and happy.

16So they’re sacrificing to their nets and burning incense to their drag; they’re living large off that catch, no cap.

17Are they really gonna keep emptying their nets and not stop taking out nations?

1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

2O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

7They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8Their 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 that hasteth to eat.

9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15They 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.

16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?