en_tn/hab/03/14.md

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  • Habakkuk describes Yahweh destroying the Chaldeans.
  • they came like a storm - The power and quickness of the Chaldeans as they attacked the people of Israel is compared to the coming of a sudden storm. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_simile)
  • gloating - "bragging"
  • devours the poor in a hiding place - finds poor people who are hiding from them and kills them and takes all their goods (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
  • devours - eats everything quickly