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1 The pronouncement that the prophet Habakkuk saw.

² How long, Lord, must I call for help
and you do not listen
or cry out to you about violence
and you do not save?
³ Why do you force me to look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Oppression and violence are right in front of me.
Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.
⁴ This is why the law is ineffective
and justice never emerges.
For the wicked restrict the righteous;
therefore, justice comes out perverted.

~Habakkuk 1.1-4

¹⁶ I heard, and I trembled within;
my lips quivered at the sound.
Rottenness entered my bones;
I trembled where I stood.
Now I must quietly wait for the day of distress
to come against the people invading us.
¹⁷ Though the fig tree does not bud
and there is no fruit on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though the flocks disappear from the pen
and there are no herds in the stalls,
¹⁸ yet I will celebrate in the Lord;
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
¹⁹ The Lord my Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like those of a deer
and enables me to walk on mountain heights!

For the choir director: on stringed instruments.

~Habakkuk 3.16-19

Text: Habakkuk 1.1-4, 3.16-19
Series: Supply Preaching
Church: Fitzgerald Crossing Baptist Church, Wynne, AR
Date: January 15, 2023