Remember your congregation,
which you purchased long ago
and redeemed as the tribe for your own possession.(A)
Remember Mount Zion where you dwell.(B)

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Remember the nation you purchased(A) long ago,(B)
    the people of your inheritance,(C) whom you redeemed(D)
    Mount Zion,(E) where you dwelt.(F)

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25 Long ago you established the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.(A)

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25 In the beginning(A) you laid the foundations of the earth,
    and the heavens(B) are the work of your hands.(C)

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22 “The Lord acquired[a] me
at the beginning of his creation,[b]
before his works of long ago.(A)
23 I was formed[c] before ancient times,
from the beginning, before the earth began.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:22 Or possessed, or made
  2. 8:22 Lit way
  3. 8:23 Or consecrated

22 “The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,[a][b]
    before his deeds of old;
23 I was formed long ages ago,
    at the very beginning, when the world came to be.

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  1. Proverbs 8:22 Or way; or dominion
  2. Proverbs 8:22 Or The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work; or The Lord brought me forth at the beginning of his work

Habakkuk’s Second Prayer

12 Are you not from eternity, Lord my God?(A)
My Holy One,(B) you[a] will not die.
Lord, you appointed them to execute judgment;
my Rock,(C) you destined them to punish us.

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  1. 1:12 Alt Hb tradition reads we

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Lord, are you not from everlasting?(A)
    My God, my Holy One,(B) you[a] will never die.(C)
You, Lord, have appointed(D) them to execute judgment;
    you, my Rock,(E) have ordained them to punish.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we