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11 He and his people with him,
(A)The most ruthless of the nations,
Will be brought in to make the land a ruin;
And they will draw their swords against Egypt
And fill the land with the slain.

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12 (A)Strangers—(B)ruthless ones of the nations have cut it down and abandoned it; on the (C)mountains and in all the valleys its foliage have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have (D)gone down from its shade and abandoned it.

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12 By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are (A)ruthless ones of the nations,

And they will (B)devastate the lofty pride of Egypt,
And all its multitude will be destroyed.

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For behold, I am (A)raising up the Chaldeans,
That bitter and hasty nation
Who walks on the breadth of the land
To (B)possess dwelling places which are not theirs.
They are dreaded and (C)feared;
Their (D)justice and exaltation come forth from themselves.
Their (E)horses are swifter than leopards
And [a]sharper than (F)wolves in the evening.
Their [b]horsemen come galloping;
Their horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an (G)eagle swooping down to devour.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:8 Or more eager to attack
  2. Habakkuk 1:8 Or steeds paw the ground