5 “Look among the nations! Observe! Astonish yourself! Be astounded! For a work is being done in your days. You will not believe it if it were told.
6 For I am about to raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter, impetuous nation, marching all over the land, to seize dwellings not its own.
7 Dreadful and terrifying, Its justice and dignity derive from itself.
8 Its horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Its horsemen come galloping. Its horsemen are coming from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to eat.
9 All of them come for violence— an assembling of faces to the east. He gathers captives like sand.
10 He scoffs at kings, and rulers are a joke to him. He laughs at every stronghold— he heaps up dirt and takes it.
11 Then a wind sweeps through and passes on. He is guilty— This, his strength, is his god.”