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Look at the nations and pay attention! Be completely dumbfounded, because I will do something in your lifetime that you will not believe, even though you are warned ahead of time. Watch, I am raising up the Chaldeans,[a] that savage, reckless nation. They will sweep across the whole width of the earth, seizing lands and homes that do not belong to them. They are frightening and terrifying. They invent their own standard of justice and their own values. Their horses are quicker than leopards and fiercer than wolves that prowl at night. Their war horses come galloping. Their war horses come from far away. They fly like vultures[b] swooping down to devour. All of them come to commit violence. Their hordes blow by like the desert wind[c] and sweep up prisoners like sand. 10 They mock kings, and rulers are subjected to scorn. They laugh at every fortified city. They heap up siege ramps and capture cities. 11 But then the wind blows and passes over them,[d] and they will bear their guilt—these men whose own strength is their god.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:6 The Chaldeans were the ethnic group ruling Babylon.
  2. Habakkuk 1:8 Or eagles
  3. Habakkuk 1:9 Or their faces look straight ahead
  4. Habakkuk 1:11 Or then the wind blows and they move on. The meaning of this sentence is uncertain.