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coming. Jerusalem is going to be destroyed.

The people are going to be carried into

captivity for 70 years, and we find

Habakkuk's burden, his vision, and then we

find him praying in the last chapter. And

after thinking about this whole thing and

speaking with God, he said, “Although the

fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall not

blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines;

the labour of the olive shall fail, and the

fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be

cut off from the fold, and there shall be no

herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the
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LORD, I will joy in the God of my

salvation. The LORD God is my strength,
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and he will make my feet like hinds' feet,

and he will make me to walk upon mine

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