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10 “They scoff at kings and princes and scorn their forts. They simply heap up dirt against their walls and capture them! 11 [a]They sweep past like wind and are gone, but their guilt is deep, for they claim their power is from their gods.”

12 O Lord my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal—is your plan in all of this to wipe us out? Surely not! O God our Rock, you have decreed the rise of these Chaldeans to chasten and correct us for our awful sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:11 The Hebrew text of this verse is very uncertain.

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