Habakkuk 1:6-8
Contemporary English Version
6 (A) I am sending the Babylonians.
They are fierce and cruel—
marching across the land,
conquering cities and towns.
7 How fearsome and frightening.
Their only laws and rules
are the ones they make up.
8 Their cavalry troops are faster
than leopards,
more ferocious than wolves
hunting at sunset,
and swifter than hungry eagles
suddenly swooping down.
Habakkuk 1:6-8
English Standard Version
6 For behold, (A)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
(B)who march through the breadth of the earth,
(C)to seize dwellings not their own.
7 They are dreaded and fearsome;
(D)their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
8 (E)Their horses are swifter than leopards,
more fierce than (F)the evening wolves;
their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
(G)they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
Habakkuk 1:6-8
King James Version
6 For, 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 their's.
7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
8 Their 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.
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