- 1 Habakkuk 1 1 Habakkuk 1 (17 verses in the MT) opens: The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. The middle of the chapter continues: They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. It closes: Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
- 2 Habakkuk 2 2 Habakkuk 2 (20 verses in the MT) opens: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. The middle of the chapter continues: For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. It closes: But YHWH in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
- 3 Habakkuk 3 3 Habakkuk 3 (19 verses in the MT) opens: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. The middle of the chapter continues: The mountains saw you, they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, lifted up his hands on high. It closes: YHWH God my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' , and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.