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The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw.
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O
and you will not listen?
Or cry to you "Violence!"
and you will not save?
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Why do you make me see wrongdoing
and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
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So the law becomes slack
and justice never prevails.
The wicked surround the righteous--
therefore judgment comes forth perverted.