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"Look at the nations and watch- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

I am raising up the Babylonians, ^(F1) that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling places not their own.

They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.

Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like a vulture swooping to devour;

they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.

They deride kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; they build earthen ramps and capture them.

Then they sweep past like the wind and go on- guilty men, whose own strength is their god."