²⁴ I will bring the worst of the nations
    to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong,
    and their holy places shall be profaned.^(A)

⁷ therefore, I will bring strangers against you,
    the most terrible of the nations;
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
    and defile your splendor.^(A)

³¹ I will pour out my indignation upon you;
    with the fire of my wrath
    I will blow upon you.
I will deliver you into brutish hands,
    those skillful to destroy.^(A)

⁴¹ he gave them into the hand of the nations,
    so that those who hated them ruled over them.^(A)

⁶ For I am rousing the Chaldeans,
    that fierce and impetuous nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth
    to seize dwellings not their own.^(A)
7 Dread and fearsome are they;
    their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.^(B)
8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more menacing than wolves at dusk;
    their horses charge.
Their horsemen come from far away;
    they fly like an eagle swift to devour.^(C)
9 They all come for violence,
    with faces pressing^[a] forward;
    they gather captives like sand.^(D)
10 At kings they scoff,
    and of rulers they make sport.
They laugh at every fortress
    and heap up earth to take it.^(E)

² Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our homes to aliens.^(A)