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Habakkuk 1:6

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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.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #225

  
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225. Internal Meaning of Habakkuk, Chapter 1 (1)

Of violence and injustice. (3)

1-5 Justice and truth perish. Grief on the part of the Lord, and directed to the Lord. (3)

6-11 The Jewish church profaned all the truths and goods of the Word and of the church. (3)

12-17 The Lord's grief continued, that the evil prevail over the good, and destroy them. (3)

  
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