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Habakkuk 1:5-11 (Today's New International Version)

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The LORD's Answer

5 "Look at the nations and watch-- and be utterly amazed.1 For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.2 6 I am raising up the Babylonians,a3 that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth4 to seize dwellings not their own.5 7 They are a feared and dreaded people;6 they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. 8 Their horses are swifter7 than leopards, fiercer than wolves8 at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like a vulture swooping to devour; 9 they all come bent on violence. Their hordesb advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners9 like sand. 10 They mock kings and scoff at rulers.10 They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps11 they capture them. 11 Then they sweep past like the wind12 and go on-- guilty people, whose own strength is their god."13
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