Habakkuk 1:6-11

Contemporary English Version

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.

⁹ They are eager to destroy,^[a]
and they gather captives
    like handfuls of sand.
¹⁰ They make fun of rulers
    and laugh at fortresses,
while building dirt mounds
    so they can capture cities.^[b]
11 Then suddenly they disappear
    like a gust of wind—
those sinful people who worship
    their own strength.