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.
11. “Then shall he pass on as a wind, and transgress and be guilty, and ascribe this power to his mighty one.”
12. Are You not from everlasting, O יהוה my Elohim, my Set-apart One? You do not die! O יהוה, You have appointed them for right-ruling, O Rock, You have established them for reproof.
13. You, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously – keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?
14. And would You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping creatures that have no ruler over them?
15. The wicked foe has pulled all of them up with a hook, caught them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and exults.
16. Therefore he offers to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, for by them is his portion fat and his food is rich.
17. Is he therefore to keep on emptying his net, and slaying nations without sparing?