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They are terrible and fearsome;
    their brand of justice and sense of honor derive only from themselves!
Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    and more cunning than wolves that attack at night.
Their horsemen are galloping
    as they approach from far away.
They swoop in like ravenous vultures.[a]

“They all come to oppress—
    hordes of them, their faces pressing onward—
they take prisoners as numerous as[b] the desert sand!

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:8 Or eagles
  2. Habakkuk 1:9 The Heb. lacks as numerous as