Habakkuk 1:5-11
“Look at the nations and watch — and be 
utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your
days that you would not believe, even if
you were told.
I am raising up the Babylonians, 
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth to seize
dwelling places not their own.
They are a feared and dreaded people;
they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. 
Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like a vulture swooping to devour;
they all come bent on violence.
Their hordes advance like a desert wind and
gather prisoners like sand. They deride kings and scoff at rulers.
They laugh at all fortified cities;
they build earthen ramps and
capture them.
Then they sweep past like the wind and go on —
guilty men, whose own strength is
their god.”
Isaiah 5:25-30a
He lifts up a banner for the distant nations,
he whistles for those at the ends of
the earth.
Here they come,
swiftly and speedily!
Not one of them grows tired or
stumbles,
not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt is loosened at the waist,
not a sandal thong is broken.
Their arrows are sharp,
all their bows are strung;
their horses’ hooves seem like flint,
their chariot wheels like a
whirlwind.
Their roar is like that of the lion,
they roar like young lions;
they growl as they seize their prey
and carry it off with no one to
rescue.
In that day they will roar over it
like the roaring of the sea.
