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Habakkuk 1:5-12

Habakkuk 1:5-12 CSB

Look at the nations  , and observe   — be utterly astounded!  For I am doing something in your days that you will not believe  when you hear about it.  Look! I am raising up  the Chaldeans,  that bitter,  impetuous nation that marches across the earth’s open spaces to seize territories not its own. They are fierce  and terrifying; their views of justice and sovereignty stem from themselves. Their horses are swifter  than leopards  and more fierce  than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from distant lands. They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.  All of them come to do violence; their faces  are set in determination.  They gather  prisoners like sand.  They mock   kings, and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh  at every fortress and build siege ramps to capture   it. Then they sweep  by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty;  their strength is their god. Are you not from eternity, Lord  my God?  My Holy One,  you   will not die. Lord, you appointed them to execute judgment; my Rock,  you destined them to punish us.

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