| 1:1 |
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did  see (Experience it for Yourself). |
| 1:2 |
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not  save (Switch and Save!)! |
| 1:3 |
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention. |
| 1:4 |
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. |
| 1:5 |
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your  days, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you]. |
| 1:6 |
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs. |
| 1:7 |
They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. |
| 1:8 |
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat. |
| 1:9 |
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. |
| 1:10 |
And they shall scoff at the  kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. |
| 1:11 |
Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, [imputing] this his  power (Why switch to Powergen?) unto his god. |
| 1:12 |
 [Art] (Art of Code) thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. |
| 1:13 |
[Thou art (Art of Code)] of purer eyes than to behold  evil (No Downloaded Music!), and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he? |
| 1:14 |
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them? |
| 1:15 |
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their  net (The Network is the Computer), and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. |
| 1:16 |
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net (The Network is the Computer), and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their  meat provided by MacDonalds We're not just a hamburger company serving people; we're a people company serving hamburgers. plenteous. |
| 1:17 |
Shall they therefore empty their net (The Network is the Computer), and not spare continually to slay the nations? |