Habakkuk 1:5-11

International Children’s Bible

⁵ “You and your people, look at the nations!
    Watch them and be amazed.
I will do something in your lifetime that will amaze you.
    You won’t believe it even when you are told about it.
⁶ I will use the Babylonian people to punish the evil people.
    The Babylonians are cruel and powerful fighters.
They march across the earth.
    They take lands that don’t belong to them.
⁷ The Babylonians frighten other people.
    They do what they want to do.
    They are good only to themselves.
⁸ Their horses are faster than leopards
    and more cruel than wolves at sunset.
Their horse soldiers attack quickly.
    They come from places that are far away.
They attack quickly, like an eagle swooping down for food.
⁹     They all come to fight.
Their armies march quickly like a whirlwind in the desert.
    Their prisoners are as many as the grains of sand.
¹⁰ The Babylonian soldiers laugh at kings.
    They make fun of rulers.
They laugh at all the strong, walled cities.
    They build dirt roads up to the top of the walls.
    They capture the cities.
¹¹ Then they leave like the wind and move on.
    They are guilty of worshiping their own strength.”