Habakkuk 1:6-8

New International Reader's Version

⁶I am going to send the armies of Babylon to attack you.
    They are very mean. They move quickly.
They sweep across the whole earth.
    They take over homes
    that do not belong to them.
⁷They terrify others.
    They do not recognize any laws but their own.
    That is how proud they are.
⁸Their horses are faster than leopards.
    They are meaner than wolves at sunset.
Their horsemen charge straight into battle.
    They ride in from far away.
They come down like an eagle
    diving for its food.

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Habakkuk 1:6-8

New International Version

⁶I am raising up the Babylonians,^[a]^(A)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth^(B)
    to seize dwellings not their own.^(C)
⁷They are a feared and dreaded people;^(D)
    they are a law to themselves
    and promote their own honor.
⁸Their horses are swifter^(E) than leopards,
    fiercer than wolves^(F) at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
    their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;

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Footnotes

Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans

Habakkuk 1:6-8

King James Version

⁶For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.

⁷They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

⁸Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

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