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17 Is this the man who made the world like a wilderness,
who overthrew its cities,
who did not let his prisoners go home?”

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I was angry with my people.
I defiled my heritage.
I gave them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy.
Even on the aged you made your yoke very heavy.

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25 Look, I am against you, declares the Lord.

You destroying mountain,
you destroy the whole world.
I will stretch out my hand against you.
I will roll you off the cliffs,
and I will make you a burned-out volcano.

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:6 The Chaldeans were the ethnic group ruling Babylon.

They are frightening and terrifying. They invent their own standard of justice and their own values.

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