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.
11 Then they sweep by like the windand pass through.They are guilty; their strength is their god.
12 Are You not from eternity, Yahweh my God? My Holy One, You will not die.Lord, You appointed them to execute judgment;my Rock, You destined them to punish us.