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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