Habakkuk 1:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ They inspire fear and terror,
    and they impose justice and judgment
    according to their own standards.
⁸ Their horses are swifter than leopards
    and more frightening than wolves at dusk.
Their horses gallop on,
    with riders advancing from far away,
    swooping like eagles to devour their prey.
⁹ They are all bent on violence,
    a horde moving steadily forward like an east wind;
    they scoop up captives like sand.