Hab 1:6-10, 13-17, 2:5 | ESV | STEP | For behold , I am raising up the Chaldeans , that bitter and hasty nation , who march through the breadth of the earth , to seize dwellings not their own.

Habakkuk 1:6-10

6 For behold, ^aI am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
^bwho march through the breadth of the earth,
^cto seize dwellings not their own.
7 They are dreaded and fearsome;
^dtheir justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
8 ^eTheir horses are swifter than leopards,
more fierce than ^fthe evening wolves;
their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
^gthey fly like an eagle swift to devour.
9 They all come ^hfor violence,
all their faces forward.
They gather captives ⁱlike sand.
10 At kings they scoff,
and at rulers they laugh.
^jThey laugh at every fortress,
for ^kthey pile up earth and take it.

Habakkuk 1:13-17

13 You who are ^lof purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
^mwhy do you idly look at traitors
and ⁿremain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
14 You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.
15 ^oHe ^{▼▼That is, the wicked foe} brings all of them up ^qwith a hook;
he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
so he rejoices and is glad.
16 ^rTherefore he sacrifices to his net
and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury, ^{▼▼Hebrew his portion is fat}
and his food is rich.
17 Is he then to keep on emptying his net
^tand mercilessly killing nations forever?

Habakkuk 2:5

5 “Moreover, wine ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth} is ^va traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain}
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death ^xhe has never enough.
^yHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”