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Habakkuk 1:9

Verse 9 of 17. The 1st of 3 chapters in Habakkuk, in The Minor Prophets.

5“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.

6For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

7They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.

10Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.

11Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”

12Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.