I am raising up the Babylonians,[a](A)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth(B)
    to seize dwellings not their own.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans

10 They mock kings
    and scoff at rulers.(A)
They laugh at all fortified cities;
    by building earthen ramps(B) they capture them.

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11 Then they sweep past like the wind(A) and go on—
    guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”(B)

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17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
    destroying nations without mercy?(A)

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