10 They mock kings
    and scoff at rulers.
They laugh at all fortified cities;
    by building earthen ramps they capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on –
    guilty people, whose own strength is their god.’

Habakkuk’s second complaint

12 Lord, are you not from everlasting?
    My God, my Holy One, you[a] will never die.
You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment;
    you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we