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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
HABACUC was a native of Bezocher, and prophesied in JUDA, some timebefore the invasion of the CHALDEANS, which he foretold. He lived to seethis prophecy fulfilled, and for many years after, according to thegeneral opinion, which supposes him to be the same that was brought bythe ANGEL to DANIEL in BABYLON, Dan. 14.
Habacuc Chapter 1
The prophet complains of the wickedness of the people: God reveals tohim the vengeance he is going to take of them by the Chaldeans.
1:1. The burden that Habacuc the prophet saw.
Burden… Such prophecies more especially are called burdens, asthreaten grievous evils and punishments.
1:2. How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cryout to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?
1:3. Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine andinjustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is morepowerful.
1:4. Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to theend: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrongjudgment goeth forth.
1:5. Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished:for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shallbe told.
1:6. For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swiftnation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their own.
1:7. They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall theirjudgment, and their burden proceed.
1:8. Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than eveningwolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemenshall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste toeat.
1:9. They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind:and they shall gather together captives as the sand.
1:10. And their prince shall triumph over kings, and princes shall behis laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold, and shallcast up a mount, and shall take it.
1:11. Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall:this is his strength of his god.
Then shall his spirit, etc… Viz., the spirit of the king of Babylon.It alludes to the judgment of God upon Nabuchodonosor, recorded Dan. 4.,and to the speedy fall of the Chaldean empire.
1:12. Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, andwe shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and madehim strong for co