[1:5] “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
[1:6] For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
[1:7] They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
[1:8] Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
[1:9] They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.
[1:10] At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.
[1:11] Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!”