Habakkuk 1:5-11

Revised Standard Version

⁵ Look among the nations, and see;
    wonder and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe if told.
⁶ For lo, I am rousing the Chalde′ans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth,
    to seize habitations not their own.
⁷ Dread and terrible are they;
    their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.
⁸ Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more fierce than the evening wolves;
    their horsemen press proudly on.
Yea, their horsemen come from afar;
    they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
⁹ They all come for violence;
    terror^[a] of them goes before them.
    They gather captives like sand.
¹⁰ At kings they scoff,
    and of rulers they make sport.
They laugh at every fortress,
    for they heap up earth and take it.
¹¹ Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
    guilty men, whose own might is their god!