From Faithfulness to Faithfulness - Habakkuk

Habakkuk 1:1-5

1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.

Habakkuk’s Complaint

2 How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? 

Or cry out to you, “Violence!" but you do not save? 

3 Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? 

Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails.

The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

The Lord’s Answer

5 “Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. 

For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. 

Habakkuk 3:17-19

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Though the fig tree does not bud

    and there are no grapes on the vines,

though the olive crop fails

    and the fields produce no food, 

though there are no sheep in the pen

    and no cattle in the stalls, 

18 

yet I will rejoice in the Lord, 

    I will be joyful in God my Savior.

19 

The Sovereign Lord is my strength; 

    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,