Habakkuk 1:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ They are all bent on violence,
    a horde moving steadily forward like an east wind;
    they scoop up captives like sand.
¹⁰ They scoff at kings,
    they despise rulers.
They regard every fortress with contempt,
    as they build earthen ramps to conquer it.
¹¹ Then they sweep past like the wind and are gone,
    as they ascribe their strength to their god.”