God’s Answer to Habakkuk

• 5 “Look among the nations and see;
  • be astonished and astounded.
• For a work is about to be done in your days
  • that you will not believe if it is told.
• 6 For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans,
  • the bitter and impetuous nation,
• the one who walks through the spacious places of earth
  • to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it.[fn]
• 7 They[fn] are dreadful and awesome;
  • their[fn] justice and their[fn] dignity proceed from themselves.[fn]
• 8 Their[fn] horses are more swift than leopards;
  • they are more menacing than wolves at dusk.
• Their[fn] horsemen gallop; their[fn] horsemen come from afar;
  • they fly like an eagle that is swift to devour.
• 9 All of them[fn] come for violence,
  • their faces pressing forward.
  • They gather captives like the sand.
• 10 And they themselves scoff at kings
  • and rulers are a joke to them.
• They laugh at every fortification,
  • and they heap up earth and take it.
• 11 Then they sweep like the wind and pass on;
  • they become guilty, whose might is their[fn] god!”