Contemplative Bible Reading

Habakkuk 2:8 (New Living Translation) 8 Because you have plundered many nations,now all the survivors will plunder you. This is part of a conversation between God and the prophet Habakkuk. God was telling the prophet about using the nation of Babylon to punish a sinful people. The Babylonians would sweep through and conquer in a […]

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Habakkuk 2:12-13 (New Living Translation) 12 “What sorrow awaits you who build citieswith money gained through murder and corruption!13 Has not the Lord of Heaven’s Armies promisedthat the wealth of nations will turn to ashes?They work so hard,but all in vain! The prophet relays the proclamation of God to the people. Ashes. Not a pretty […]

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Habakkuk 1:3b (New Living Translation) I am surrounded by people    who love to argue and fight. I copied title from the news today. No, not really. I copied it from this verse. The prophet wrote this a few thousand years ago. Someone at the Washington Post or whatever could copy these words and put them where […]

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Habakkuk 1:16 (New Living Translation) Then they will worship their nets and burn incense in front of them. “These nets are the gods who have made us rich!” they will claim. The prophet is pleading to God for mercy. Invaders will come and do as they wish with God’s people. No small fact, but God’s […]

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Habakkuk 2:15 (New Living Translation) What sorrow awaits you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup on them so you can gloat over their shameful nakedness. “Let’s get them drunk so they will embarrass themselves, and then we will have a good time!” So says the prophet speaking the words of God to […]

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Habakkuk 3:17-18 (New International Version) 17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I […]

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Habakkuk 2:18-20 (New International Version) 18 “Of what value is an idol, since a man has carved it? Or an image that teaches lies? For he who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, […]

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