In other words, Babylon’s power was not unbreakable, its victories not final; a day of recompense was indeed coming. Until then, the people needed to keep faith in God’s own faithfulness to them. In response, Habakkuk goes away rejoicing ‘in the God of my salvation’.25 Habakkuk understood how empires made history, a history made of desolation wrought by kings who believed they were walking and talking icons of their own deities. Yet the God of the covenant, while he might use these kings for his own purposes, would never let them have it all their own way. That is precisely why the Welsh
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