1. The message which the prophet Ḥaḇaqquq saw.
2. O יהוה, till when shall I cry, and You not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” and You do not save.
3. Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.
4. Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.
5. “Look among the nations and see, and be amazed, be amazed! For a work is being wrought in your days which you would not believe if it were told.
6. “See, I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, who is going through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7. “They are frightening and fearsome, their right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves.