3. Why do you let me see iniquity?why do you simply gaze at evil?Destruction and violence are before me;there is strife and discord.
4. This is why the law is numband justice never comes,For the wicked surround the just;this is why justice comes forth perverted.
5. Look over the nations and see!Be utterly amazed!For a work is being done in your daysthat you would not believe, were it told.
6. For now I am raising up the Chaldeans,that bitter and impulsive people,Who march the breadth of the landto take dwellings not their own.
7. They are terrifying and dreadful;their right and their exalted position are of their own making.
8. Swifter than leopards are their horses,and faster than desert wolves.Their horses spring forward;they come from far away;they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.
9. All of them come for violence,their combined onslaught, a stormwindto gather up captives like sand.