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Habakkuk 1:1-11 (JDV)

Habakkuk 1:1 The pronouncement of what the prophet Habakkuk saw.
Habakkuk 1:2 How long, Yahveh, must I call for help and you do not listen or cry out to you about violence and you do not save?
Habakkuk 1:3 Why do you force me to see injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Robbery and violence are right in front of me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.
Habakkuk 1:4 This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted.
Habakkuk 1:5 Look at the nations and observe — be utterly astounded! For I am doing something in your days that you will not believe when you hear about it.
Habakkuk 1:6 Notice! I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter, impetuous nation that marches across the land’s open spaces to seize territories not its own.
Habakkuk 1:7 They are fierce and terrifying; their views of justice and sovereignty stem from themselves.
Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses are swifter than leopards and fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from distant lands. They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.
Habakkuk 1:9 All of them come to do violence; their faces are set in determination. They gather prisoners like sand.
Habakkuk 1:10 They mock kings, and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortress and build siege ramps to capture it.
Habakkuk 1:11 Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They bear guilt; their strength is their god.

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Habakkuk begins with a complaint from the author to God, and God’s response was totally not what was expected. It is like Habakkuk had put in an emergency phone call, and the reply was, “OK, I’ll send you an enemy army!” Wrong number? No, the prophet is learning to trust God to do what needs to be done his way. His ways are not our ways.

LORD, teach us to pray prayers which seek your solution to our problems, not to dictate to you what you must do. May your kingdom come, not ours.