8. Their horses also are swifter than leopards and are fiercer than the evening wolves, and their horsemen spread themselves and press on proudly; yes, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that hastens to devour.
9. They all come for violence; their faces turn eagerly forward, and they gather prisoners together like sand.
10. They scoff at kings, and rulers are a derision to them; they ridicule every stronghold, for they heap up dust [for earth mounds] and take it.
11. Then they sweep by like a wind and pass on, and they load themselves with guilt, [as do all men] whose own power is their god.