Habakkuk 1:5-11

English Standard Version

^5 (A)“Look among the nations, and see;
    wonder and be astounded.
^(B)For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe if told.
⁶ For behold, ^(C)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
^(D)who march through the breadth of the earth,
    ^(E)to seize dwellings not their own.
⁷ They are dreaded and fearsome;
    ^(F)their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
^8 (G)Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more fierce than ^(H)the evening wolves;
    their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
    ^(I)they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
⁹ They all come ^(J)for violence,
    all their faces forward.
    They gather captives ^(K)like sand.
¹⁰ At kings they scoff,
    and at rulers they laugh.
^(L)They laugh at every fortress,
    for ^(M)they pile up earth and take it.
¹¹ Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
    ^(N)guilty men, ^(O)whose own might is their god!”