6 For lo, I am rousing the Chaldeans,

that bitter and hasty nation,

who march through the breadth of the earth,

to seize habitations not their own.

7 Dread and terrible are they;

their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.

8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,

more fierce than the evening wolves;

their horsemen press proudly on.

Yea, their horsemen come from afar;

they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

9 They all come for violence;

terrora of them goes before them.

They gather captives like sand.

10 At kings they scoff,

and of rulers they make sport.

They laugh at every fortress,

for they heap up earth and take it.

11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,

guilty men, whose own might is their god!