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coming of the Chaldeans; in 1:13 they are the foreign and idolatrous oppressors themselves. This inconsistency has led some scholars, as Giesebrecht and Wellhausen, to throw out 1:5–11 as an earlier prophetic fragment which has been intruded here; while Budde puts it after 2:4. Ewald regards the present order as correct and the text genuine up to 2:8. Budde offers a curious explanation, supposing that Habakkuk’s prophecy is directed against the Assyrians of Josiah’s time, who are about to be punished
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