5See among the nations and look and be astounded; be astounded, for a work is being worked in your days that you will not believe when it is recounted.6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation that goes to the broad places of the land to possess dwellings not its own.7It is terrible and fearsome; from it its justice and its elevation come out.8Its horses are swifter than leopards and sharper than evening wolves; its horsemen leap and come from afar; they fly like an eagle hastening to eat.9All of it comes for violence; the horde of their faces is eastward, and it gathers captives like sand.10It mocks kings, and rulers are a laughing matter to it; it laughs at every fortification, heaps up dust, and captures it.11Then a spirit passes and moves on, and this one becomes guilty; its strength is its god.