6. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation; which march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7. 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 spread themselves: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
9. They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.
10. Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him: he derideth every strong hold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
11. Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty: even he whose might is his god.