24 He devours the distance with fierceness and rage;
Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.

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41 But while they still did not believe (A)for joy, and marveled, He said to them, (B)“Have you any food here?”

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Their horses also are (A)swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their [a]chargers [b]charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the (B)eagle that hastens to eat.

“They all come for violence;
Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. horsemen
  2. Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. spring about

If a [a]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
(A)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:6 ram’s horn

Sorrow for the Doomed Nation

19 O my (A)soul, my soul!
I am pained in my very heart!
My heart makes a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

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20 Should He be told that I wish to speak?
If a man were to speak, surely he would be swallowed up.

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24 If I mocked at them, they did not believe it,
And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

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16 If I called and He answered me,
I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

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