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10 And they themselves scoff at kings
    and rulers are a joke to them.
They laugh at every fortification,
    and they heap up earth and take it.
11 Then they sweep like the wind and pass on;
    they become guilty, whose might is their[a] god!”

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Are you not from of old,
    O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?
    You[b] shall not die.
O Yahweh, you have marked them[c] for judgment;
    O Rock, you have established them[d] for reproof.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:11 Hebrew “his”
  2. Habakkuk 1:12 Hebrew “we shall not die,” considered a deliberate scribal change of the text to avoid offensive language toward Yahweh
  3. Habakkuk 1:12 Hebrew “him”
  4. Habakkuk 1:12 Hebrew “him”