Habakkuk 1:7-13
"[The Chaldeans] are terrible and dreadful; their justice and dignity proceed [only] from themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than leopards and are fiercer than the evening wolves, and their horsemen spread themselves and press on proudly; yes, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that hastens to devour.
They all come for violence; their faces turn eagerly forward, and they gather prisoners together like sand.
They scoff at kings, and rulers are a derision to them; they ridicule every stronghold, for they heap up dust [for earth mounds] and take it.
Then they sweep by like a wind and pass on, and they load themselves with guilt, [as do all men] whose own power is their god.
Are not You from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed [the Chaldean] to execute [Your] judgment, and You, O Rock, have established him for chastisement and correction.
You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and can not look [inactively] upon injustice. Why then do You look upon the plunderer? Why are you silent when the wicked one destroys him who is more righteous than [the Chaldean oppressor] is?"
The man of God here, is living in the days of The Caldean bad men. They were killing and destroying nations of people. He ask God, Who has Pure Eyes, "How can You be inactive with injustice?"
He is sick of all the tragedy. How like our day...
PJCopty
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