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Habakkuk 1:7-14 English Revised Version (ERV)

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

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

9. They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.

10. Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him: he derideth every strong hold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.

11. Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty: even he whose might is his god.

12. Art not thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.

13. Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

14. and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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