Habakkuk 1:5-8 Part 2 of 3

The LORD replied, "Look around at the nations; look and be amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn't believe even if someone told you about it. I am raising up the Babylonians, a cruel and violent people. They will march across the world and conquer other lands. They are notorious for their cruelty and do whatever they like. Their horses are swifter than cheetahs and fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their charioteers charge from far away. Like eagles, they swoop down to devour their prey."

 

"They will march across the world and conquer other lands."

Jeremiah 6:22  This is what the LORD says: "Look! A great army is coming from the north! A great nation is rising against you from far-off lands." (see verses 22-26)

Ezekiel 29:17-20  On April 26, the first day of the new year, during the twenty-seventh year of King Jehoiachin's captivity this message came to me from the LORD: "Son of man, the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon fought so hard against Tyre that the warriors' heads were rubbed bare and their shoulders were raw and blistered. Yet Nebuchadnezzar and his army won no plunder to compensate them for all their work. Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. He will carry off its wealth, plundering everything it has so he can pay his army. Yes, I have given him the land of Egypt as a reward for his work, says the Sovereign LORD, because he was working for me when he destroyed Tyre."

 

"They are notorious for their cruelty and do whatever they like." 

Habakkuk 1:10  "They scoff at kings and princes and scorn all their fortresses. They simply pile ramps of earth against their walls and capture them!" (see verses 6-11)

Jeremiah 6:23  "They are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like a roaring seas as they ride forward on horses. They are coming in battle formation, planning to destroy you, beautiful Jerusalem." (see verses 22-26)

Jeremiah 21:7  " 'And after all that (verses 3-6), says the LORD, I will hand over King Zedekiah, his staff, and everyone else in the city who survives the disease, war, and famine. I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and to their other enemies. He will slaughter them and show them no mercy, pity, or compassion.' " (see verses 1-14)

Jeremiah 39:5-7  But the Babylonian troops chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho. They took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who was at Riblah in the land of Hamath. There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah. He made Zedekiah watch as they slaughtered his sons and all the nobles of Judah. Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon. (see verses 1-10)

 

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