Habakkuk 1:6-8

New International Reader's Version

⁶ I 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.
⁷ They terrify others.
    They do not recognize any laws but their own.
    That is how proud they are.
⁸ Their 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.