They are terrible and fearful: [a]their judgment, and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the wolves in the (A)evening: and their horsemen are many: and their horsemen shall come from far: they shall fly as the eagle hasting to meat.

They come all to spoil: for their faces shall be an [b]East wind, and they shall gather the captivity [c]as the sand.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:7 They themselves shall be your judges in this cause, and none shall have authority over them to control them.
  2. Habakkuk 1:9 For the Jews most feared this wind, because it destroyed their fruits.
  3. Habakkuk 1:9 They shall be so many in number.

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