Habakkuk 1:5-11
God raising up Babylon as his instrument of judgment against Judah, Habakkuk's great theological puzzle.
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1:5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
1:6For, 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 theirs.
1:7They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
1:8Their 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.
1:9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
1:10And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
1:11Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Fulfillment References
2 Kings 24:2 Jeremiah 25:9 Habakkuk 1:6
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