Habakkuk 1:7

"They are terrible and dreadful, their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves."

"Their judgment and dignity proceed from themselves ..." God's people, having rejected the authority of their God, should, in the rise of Babylon, be judged by a nation without regard for God. "His own will (the will of the invader) shall be his only law for himself and for others. His elevation too, in his thoughts, are from himself alone."[17]

Note the reference to "dignity." The new, monolithic, world-power, "will have, like all great world-powers, a real dignity and majesty, but a dignity held independently of God."[18] Thus, a study of the passage reveals a most precise and adequate description of the forthcoming successor to Assyria, Babylon, the third such entity to rise out of the seas of human populations, and visible in the apostle John's Scarlet, Seven-Headed Sea Monster (Revelation 13), and easily identifiable as the Third head, Egypt and Assyria having been the other two.