WEBVTT 00:00:00.919 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.300 in a year. Today's reading is the entire book 00:00:09.300 --> 00:00:14.980 of Habakkuk, chapters 1 to 3. Chapter 1 The burden 00:00:14.980 --> 00:00:18.379 which the prophet Habakkuk saw. O Lord, how long 00:00:18.379 --> 00:00:21.440 shall I cry, and you will not hear? Even cry 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.000 out to you violence, and you will not save. Why 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.239 do you show me iniquity, and cause me to see 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.760 trouble? For plundering and violence are before 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:33.460 me. there is strife and contention arises therefore 00:00:33.460 --> 00:00:36.640 the law is powerless and justice never goes forth 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.740 for the wicked surround the righteous therefore 00:00:39.740 --> 00:00:43.259 perverse judgment proceeds look among the nations 00:00:43.259 --> 00:00:46.259 and watch be utterly astounded for i will work 00:00:46.259 --> 00:00:49.079 a work in your days which you would not believe 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.079 though it were told you for indeed i am raising 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:55.219 up the chaldeans a bitter and hasty nation which 00:00:55.219 --> 00:00:58.380 marches through the breadth of the earth to possess 00:00:58.380 --> 00:01:01.299 dwelling places that are not theirs they are 00:01:01.299 --> 00:01:03.820 terrible and dreadful their judgment and their 00:01:03.820 --> 00:01:06.680 dignity proceed from themselves their horses 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.599 also are swifter than leopards and more fierce 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.859 than evening wolves their chargers charge ahead 00:01:12.859 --> 00:01:16.379 their cavalry comes from afar they fly as the 00:01:16.379 --> 00:01:19.500 eagle that hastens to eat they all come for violence 00:01:19.500 --> 00:01:23.030 their faces are set like the east wind They gather 00:01:23.030 --> 00:01:26.189 captives like sand, they scoff at kings, and 00:01:26.189 --> 00:01:29.209 princes are scorned by them. They deride every 00:01:29.209 --> 00:01:32.209 stronghold, for they heap up earthen mounds and 00:01:32.209 --> 00:01:35.489 seize it. Then his mind changes, and he transgresses, 00:01:35.489 --> 00:01:38.230 he commits offense, ascribing this power to his 00:01:38.230 --> 00:01:40.950 God. Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my 00:01:40.950 --> 00:01:44.650 God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you 00:01:44.650 --> 00:01:47.430 have appointed them for judgment. O Rock, you 00:01:47.430 --> 00:01:50.230 have marked them for correction. You are of purer 00:01:50.230 --> 00:01:53.090 eyes than to behold evil. and cannot look on 00:01:53.090 --> 00:01:55.709 wickedness why do you look on those who deal 00:01:55.709 --> 00:01:58.290 treacherously and hold your tongue when the wicked 00:01:58.290 --> 00:02:01.769 devours a person more righteous than he why do 00:02:01.769 --> 00:02:04.170 you make men like fish of the sea like creeping 00:02:04.170 --> 00:02:07.450 things that have no ruler over them they take 00:02:07.450 --> 00:02:10.490 up all of them with a hook they catch them in 00:02:10.490 --> 00:02:13.750 their net and gather them in their dragnet therefore 00:02:13.750 --> 00:02:16.639 they rejoice and are glad Therefore they sacrifice 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.580 to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet, 00:02:19.740 --> 00:02:23.759 because by them their share is sumptuous, and 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.500 their food is plentiful. Shall they therefore 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:29.500 empty their net, and continue to slay nations 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:34.659 without pity? Chapter 2 I will stand my watch, 00:02:34.780 --> 00:02:37.259 and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see 00:02:37.259 --> 00:02:39.979 what he will say to me, and what I will answer 00:02:39.979 --> 00:02:42.460 when I am corrected. Then the Lord answered me 00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:44.919 and said, Write the vision, and make it plain 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.300 on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For 00:02:48.300 --> 00:02:50.919 the vision is yet for an appointed time, but 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.599 at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:56.879 Though it tarries, wait for it, because it will 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.860 surely come, it will not tarry. Behold the proud, 00:03:00.099 --> 00:03:02.680 his soul is not upright in him, but the just 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:06.460 shall live by his faith. Indeed, because he transgresses 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:09.379 by wine, he is a proud man, and he does not stay 00:03:09.379 --> 00:03:12.500 at home. because he enlarges his desire as hell, 00:03:12.620 --> 00:03:15.000 and he is like death and cannot be satisfied. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.020 He gathers to himself all nations, and heaps 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:21.099 up for himself all peoples. Will not all these 00:03:21.099 --> 00:03:23.800 take up a proverb against him, and a taunting 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.819 riddle against him, and say, Woe to him who increases 00:03:26.819 --> 00:03:30.539 what is not his! How long! And to him who loathes 00:03:30.539 --> 00:03:33.379 himself with many pledges, will not your creditors 00:03:33.379 --> 00:03:36.819 rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress 00:03:36.819 --> 00:03:39.719 you? And you will become their booty. Because 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.240 you have plundered many nations, all the remnant 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.780 of the people shall plunder you, because of men's 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:47.240 blood, and the violence of the land and the city, 00:03:47.340 --> 00:03:50.599 and of all who dwell in it. Woe to him who covets 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.360 evil gain for his house, that he may set his 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.060 nest on high, that he may be delivered from the 00:03:56.060 --> 00:03:58.479 power of disaster. You give shameful counsel 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.199 to your house, cutting off many peoples, and 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.759 sin against your soul. For the stone will cry 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:06.419 out from the wall, and the beam from the timbers 00:04:06.419 --> 00:04:09.240 will answer it. Woe to him who builds a town 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:12.360 with bloodshed, who establishes a city by iniquity. 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:15.780 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the 00:04:15.780 --> 00:04:18.879 peoples labor to feed the fire, and nations worry 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.680 themselves in vain? For the earth will be filled 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.620 with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, 00:04:23.740 --> 00:04:26.660 as the waters cover the sea. Woe to him who gives 00:04:26.660 --> 00:04:29.279 drink to his neighbor, pressing him to your bottle, 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.339 even to make him drunk, that you may look on 00:04:32.339 --> 00:04:35.259 his nakedness. You are filled with shame instead 00:04:35.259 --> 00:04:39.339 of glory. You also drink and be exposed as uncircumcised. 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.079 The cup of the Lord's right hand will be turned 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.160 against you, and utter shame will be on your 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.459 glory. For the violence done to Lebanon will 00:04:47.459 --> 00:04:50.220 cover you, and the plunder of beasts which made 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:53.259 them afraid because of men's blood, and the violence 00:04:53.259 --> 00:04:55.819 of the land and the city, and of all who dwell 00:04:55.819 --> 00:04:59.269 in it. What prophet is the image that its maker 00:04:59.269 --> 00:05:01.990 should carve it, the molded image a teacher of 00:05:01.990 --> 00:05:04.790 lies, that the maker of its mold should trust 00:05:04.790 --> 00:05:08.189 in it to make mute idols? Woe to him who says 00:05:08.189 --> 00:05:12.009 to wood, Awake! To silent stone, Arise! It shall 00:05:12.009 --> 00:05:15.069 teach. Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, 00:05:15.250 --> 00:05:18.629 yet in it there is no breath at all. But the 00:05:18.629 --> 00:05:21.589 Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth 00:05:21.589 --> 00:05:26.279 keep silence before him. Chapter 3 A prayer of 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:30.160 Habakkuk the prophet on Shigernot. O Lord, I 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.600 have heard your speech and was afraid. O Lord, 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.319 revive your work in the midst of the years. In 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:37.839 the midst of the years make it known. In wrath 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.459 remember mercy. God came from Teman, the Holy 00:05:41.459 --> 00:05:44.860 One from Mount Paran, Sila. His glory covered 00:05:44.860 --> 00:05:47.160 the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.079 His brightness was like the light He had raised 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:53.060 flashing from His hand, and there His power was 00:05:53.060 --> 00:05:56.209 hidden. Before him went pestilence, and fever 00:05:56.209 --> 00:05:58.910 followed at his feet. He stood and measured the 00:05:58.910 --> 00:06:01.870 earth. He looked and startled the nations, and 00:06:01.870 --> 00:06:04.250 the everlasting mountains were scattered. The 00:06:04.250 --> 00:06:07.149 perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting. 00:06:07.589 --> 00:06:10.970 I saw the tents of Kushan in affliction. The 00:06:10.970 --> 00:06:14.149 curtains of the land of Midian trembled. O Lord, 00:06:14.350 --> 00:06:16.689 were you displeased with the rivers? Was your 00:06:16.689 --> 00:06:19.189 anger against the rivers? Was your wrath against 00:06:19.189 --> 00:06:22.490 the sea? That you rode on your horses, your chariots 00:06:22.490 --> 00:06:26.259 of salvation? your bow was made quite ready oaths 00:06:26.259 --> 00:06:29.959 were sworn over your arrows salah you divided 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.459 the earth with rivers the mountains saw you and 00:06:32.459 --> 00:06:34.959 trembled the overflowing of the water passed 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.379 by the deep uttered its voice and lifted its 00:06:38.379 --> 00:06:41.860 hands on high the sun and moon stood still in 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:44.120 their habitation at the light of your arrows 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.040 they went at the shining of your glittering spear 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.600 you marched through the land in indignation you 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.220 trampled the nations in anger You went forth 00:06:53.220 --> 00:06:55.740 for the salvation of your people, for the salvation 00:06:55.740 --> 00:06:58.620 of your anointed. You struck the head from the 00:06:58.620 --> 00:07:01.459 house of the wicked by laying bare from foundation 00:07:01.459 --> 00:07:05.279 to neck. Salah. You thrust through with his own 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.480 arrows the head of his villages. They came out 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.079 like a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.060 was like feasting on the poor in secret. You 00:07:14.060 --> 00:07:16.779 walked through the sea with your horses, through 00:07:16.779 --> 00:07:20.000 the heap of great waters. When I heard, my body 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:23.540 trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness 00:07:23.540 --> 00:07:26.860 entered my bones, and I trembled in myself, that 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:29.759 I might rest in the day of trouble. When he comes 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.639 up to the people, he will invade them with his 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.259 troops. Though the fig tree may not blossom, 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.660 nor fruit be on the vines, though the labor of 00:07:38.660 --> 00:07:41.319 the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food, 00:07:41.899 --> 00:07:44.180 Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, 00:07:44.300 --> 00:07:47.100 and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:50.199 rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:53.699 my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, He 00:07:53.699 --> 00:07:56.279 will make my feet like deer's feet, and He will 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:04.540 make me walk on my high hills. I hope you enjoyed 00:08:04.540 --> 00:08:06.879 today's reading as much as I did, and I look 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:08.839 forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:11.019 on our journey. God bless you and have a great 00:08:11.019 --> 00:08:11.300 day.