Habakkuk 1:1-3

American Standard Version

1 The ^[a]burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

² O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save. ³ Why dost thou show me iniquity, and ^[b]look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.