<t /><p class="bodytext">The following is the message<n id="1" /> which God revealed to Habakkuk the prophet:<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I listened and my stomach churned;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the sound made my lips quiver.p> <p class="poetry">My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and I shook as I tried to walk.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I long<n id="4" /> for the day of distressp> <p class="poetry">to come upon<n id="5" /> the people who attack us.p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">His appetite<n id="2" /> is as big as Sheol&#8217;s;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">like death, he is never satisfied.p> <p class="poetry">He gathers<n id="4" /> all the nations;p> <p class="poetry">he seizes<n id="5" /> all peoples.p>