Habakkuk 1:7-11

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⁷ Dread and fearsome are they;
    their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.^(A)
8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more menacing than wolves at dusk;
    their horses charge.
Their horsemen come from far away;
    they fly like an eagle swift to devour.^(B)
9 They all come for violence,
    with faces pressing^[a] forward;
    they gather captives like sand.^(C)
10 At kings they scoff,
    and of rulers they make sport.
They laugh at every fortress
    and heap up earth to take it.^(D)
11 Then they sweep by like the wind;
    they transgress and become guilty;
    their own might is their god!^(E)