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10 They make fun of kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every strong city and build a battle-wall to take it. 11 Then they move through like the wind and keep going. They are guilty men, whose strength is their god.”

Habakkuk’s Second Question

12 Have You not lived forever, O Lord, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O Lord, You have chosen them to judge. You, O Rock, have chosen them to punish us.

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10 They mock kings
    and scoff at rulers.(A)
They laugh at all fortified cities;
    by building earthen ramps(B) they capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind(C) and go on—
    guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”(D)

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

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

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Footnotes

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