4 This is why the law is ineffectiveand justice never emerges.For the wicked restrict the righteous;therefore, justice comes out perverted.
5 Look at the nations and observe —be utterly astounded! For something is taking place in your daysthat you will not believe when you hear about it.
6 Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter, impetuous nationthat marches across the earth’s open spacesto seize territories not its own.
7 They are fierce and terrifying;their views of justice and sovereigntystem from themselves.
8 Their horses are swifter than leopards and more fierce than wolves of the night.Their horsemen charge ahead;their horsemen come from distant lands.They fly like an eagle, swooping to devour.
9 All of them come to do violence;their faces are set in determination. They gather prisoners like sand.
10 They mock kings,and rulers are a joke to them.They laugh at every fortressand build siege ramps to capture it.