3. Why do you make me see iniquity,and why do you idly look at wrong?Destruction and violence are before me;strife and contention arise.
4. So the law is paralyzed,and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous;so justice goes forth perverted.
5. “Look among the nations, and see;wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your daysthat you would not believe if told.
6. For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
7. They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
8. Their horses are swifter than leopards,more fierce than the evening wolves;their horsemen press proudly on.Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
9. They all come for violence,all their faces forward.They gather captives like sand.