Habakkuk 1:5-11

New Century Version

⁵ “Look at the nations!
    Watch them and be amazed and shocked.
I will do something in your lifetime
    that you won’t believe even when you are told about it.
⁶ I will use the Babylonians,
    those cruel and wild people
who march across the earth
    and take lands that don’t belong to them.
⁷ They scare and frighten people.
    They do what they want to do
    and are good only to themselves.
⁸ Their horses are faster than leopards
    and quicker than wolves at sunset.
Their horse soldiers attack quickly;
    they come from places far away.
They attack quickly, like an eagle swooping down for food.
⁹ They all come to fight.
Nothing can stop them.
    Their prisoners are as many as the grains of sand.
¹⁰ They laugh at kings
    and make fun of rulers.
They laugh at all the strong, walled cities
    and build dirt piles to the top of the walls to capture them.
¹¹ Then they leave like the wind and move on.
    They are guilty of worshiping their own strength.”