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¹ The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw. ² And You will not save. ³ There is strife, and contention arises. ⁴ Therefore perverse judgment proceeds. ⁵ Which you would not believe, though it were told you. ⁶ To possess dwelling places that are not theirs. ⁷ Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. ⁸ They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. ⁹ They gather captives like sand. ¹⁰ For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it. ¹¹ Ascribing this power to his god.” ¹² O Rock, You have marked them for correction. ¹³ A person more righteous than he? ¹⁴ Like creeping things that have no ruler over them? ¹⁵ Therefore they rejoice and are glad. ¹⁶ And their food plentiful. ¹⁷ And continue to slay nations without pity?