⁵ Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for ^[a]I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you. ⁶ For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. ^7 [b]They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. ⁸ Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen ^[c]press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour. ⁹ They come all of them for violence; ^[d]the set of their faces is ^[e]forwards; and they gather captives as the sand. ^10 [f]Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it. ^11 [g]Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall ^[h]pass over, and be guilty, even he whose might is his god.