11 He and his people with him,
(A)The most ruthless of the nations,
Will be brought in to destroy the land;
And they will draw their swords against Egypt
And fill the land with the slain.

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11 He and his army—the most ruthless of nations(A)
    will be brought in to destroy the land.
They will draw their swords against Egypt
    and fill the land with the slain.(B)

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12 (A)Foreign (B)tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the (C)mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its branches have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have (D)gone down from its shade and left it.

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12 and the most ruthless of foreign nations(A) cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys;(B) its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.(C)

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12 By the swords of the warriors I will make your multitude fall; all of them are (A)tyrants of the nations,

And they will (B)devastate the pride of Egypt,
And all its multitude will be destroyed.

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12 I will cause your hordes to fall
    by the swords of mighty men—
    the most ruthless of all nations.(A)
They will shatter the pride of Egypt,
    and all her hordes will be overthrown.(B)

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For behold, I am (A)raising up the Chaldeans,
That [a]grim and impetuous people
Who march [b]throughout the earth,
To (B)take possession of dwelling places that are not theirs.
They are terrifying and (C)feared;
Their (D)justice and [c]authority [d]originate with themselves.
Their (E)horses are faster than leopards,
And quicker than (F)wolves in the evening.
Their [e]horsemen charge along,
Their [f]horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an (G)eagle [g]swooping down to devour.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:6 Lit bitter
  2. Habakkuk 1:6 Lit the breadth of
  3. Habakkuk 1:7 Lit sovereignty
  4. Habakkuk 1:7 Lit proceed from
  5. Habakkuk 1:8 Or horses
  6. Habakkuk 1:8 Or horses
  7. Habakkuk 1:8 Lit hurrying to

I am raising up the Babylonians,[a](A)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth(B)
    to seize dwellings not their own.(C)
They are a feared and dreaded people;(D)
    they are a law to themselves
    and promote their own honor.
Their horses are swifter(E) than leopards,
    fiercer than wolves(F) at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
    their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans