Habakkuk 1:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more menacing than wolves at dusk;
    their horses charge.
Their horsemen come from far away;
    they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
⁹ They all come for violence,
    with faces pressing^[a] forward;
    they gather captives like sand.
¹⁰ At kings they scoff,
    and of rulers they make sport.
They laugh at every fortress,
    and heap up earth to take it.