Habakkuk 3

1 They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians. 2 They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord. 3 What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord? 4 For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles. 5 The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness. 6 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God. 7 They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin. 8 I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved. 9 As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 10 And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them. 11 Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer. 12 Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts. 13 All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters. 14 Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit of their womb. 15 My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. 17 Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols. 18 Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars. 19 For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?