jps - Habakkuk:1:5-11

jps@Habakkuk:1:5 @ Look ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for, behold, a work shall be wrought in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

jps@Habakkuk:1:6 @ For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

jps@Habakkuk:1:7 @ They are terrible and dreadful; their law and their majesty proceed from themselves.

jps@Habakkuk:1:8 @ Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the wolves of the desert; and their horsemen spread themselves; yea, their horsemen come from far, they fly as a vulture that hasteth to devour.

jps@Habakkuk:1:9 @ They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.

jps@Habakkuk:1:10 @ And they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision unto them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up earth, and take it.

jps@Habakkuk:1:11 @ Then their spirit doth pass over and transgress, and they become guilty: even they who impute their might unto their god.