Habakkuk 1:5-10

LEB(i) 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.* 7 They* are dreadful and awesome; their* justice and their* dignity proceed from themselves.* 8 Their* horses are more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves at dusk. Their* horsemen gallop; their* horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that is swift to devour. 9 All of them* 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.