Habakkuk 1:5-11 - God's Answer To Habakkuk

⁵ Look at the nations and observe—
be utterly astounded!
For something is taking place in your days
that you will not believe
when you hear about it.
⁶ Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter, impetuous nation
that marches across the earth’s open spaces
to seize territories not its own.
⁷ They are fierce and terrifying;
their views of justice and sovereignty
stem from themselves.
⁸ Their horses are swifter than leopards
and more fierce than wolves of the night.
Their horsemen charge ahead;
their horsemen come from distant lands.
They fly like an eagle, swooping to devour.
⁹ All of them come to do violence;
their faces are set in determination.
They gather prisoners like sand.
¹⁰ They mock kings,
and rulers are a joke to them.
They laugh at every fortress
and build siege ramps to capture it.
¹¹ Then they sweep by like the wind
and pass through.
They are guilty; their strength is their god.