Habakkuk 1:4-6

Modern English Version

⁴ Therefore the law is powerless,
    and justice never goes forth.
For the wicked surround the righteous;
    therefore injustice proceeds.

⁵ Look among the nations, and watch—
    wonder and be amazed!
For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe,
    though it were told you.
⁶ For I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation
which marches through the breadth of the earth,
    to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.