Habakkuk 1:5-11

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁵ Look among the nations and watch.
Be amazed and astonished.
I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe even if it were reported to you.
⁶ I am going to send the Babylonians,
that fierce and reckless nation.
They will march throughout the earth
to take possession of lands that don’t belong to them.
⁷ They will be terrifying and fearsome.
They will carry out their own kind of justice and honor.
⁸ Their horses will be faster than leopards
and quicker than wolves in the evening.
Their riders will gallop along proudly.
Their riders will come from far away.
They will fly like an eagle that swoops down for its prey.
⁹ They will all come for violence.
Every face will be directed forward.
They will gather prisoners like sand.
¹⁰ They will make fun of kings and treat rulers as a joke.
They will laugh at every fortified city
and build a dirt ramp to capture it.
¹¹ They will move quickly and pass through like the wind.
So they will be guilty,
because their own strength is their god.