3. Why do You make me see wickedness,and cause me to see trouble?Plundering and violence are before me;strife and contention arise.
4. Therefore the law is powerless,and justice never goes forth.For the wicked surround the righteous;therefore injustice proceeds.
5. Look among the nations, and watch—wonder and be amazed!For I am doing a work in your daysthat you would not believe,though it were told you.
6. For I am raising up the Chaldeans,that bitter and hasty nationwhich marches through the breadth of the earth,to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7. They are terrible and dreadful;their justice and their dignityproceed from themselves.
8. Their horses are swifter than leopards,more fierce than evening wolves.Their horsemen charge on;their horsemen come from afar;they fly like the eagle that hastens to eat.
9. They all come for violence;their forces advance like the east wind.They gather captives like sand.