5See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.
6For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
7They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
8And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
9They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
10He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
11Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
