3. Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.
4. Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.
5. “Look among the nations and see, and be amazed, be amazed! For a work is being wrought in your days which you would not believe if it were told.
6. “See, I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, who is going through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7. “They are frightening and fearsome, their right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves.
8. “Their horses shall be swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. And their horsemen shall charge ahead, and their horsemen come from afar. They fly as the eagle, rushing to eat.
9. “All of them come for violence, the direction of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand.
10. “And they scoff at sovereigns, and princes are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they pile up earth and seize it.