Habakkuk 1:9

They all come to do violence, a horde like a desert wind, they gather up captives like sand.

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They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

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8Their horses are swifter than leopards, quicker than wolves hunting at dusk. From afar they come swooping down, like an eagle attacking its prey.

10At kings they scoff, and princes are sport to them. They laugh at every fortress, and heap up earth to take it.

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Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:6-12

Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more… Read the whole commentary →

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