3 Why do you cause me to see evil while you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice does not go forth perpetually. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
5 “Look among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work is about to be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told.
6 For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation, the one who walks through the spacious places of earth to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it.
7 They are dreadful and awesome; their justice and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their horses are more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves at dusk. Their horsemen gallop; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that is swift to devour.
9 All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand.