Thus says the Lord, Behold, a people come from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.

They shall lay hold of bow and spear; [the people] are fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against you as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Zion.

Look upon Your covenant; for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

Wretched daughter of Babylon! Blessed [shall he be] who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.

Blessed [shall he be] who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against you, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare your children.

Having smitten a nation in wrath with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared [them] not, he rested in quiet.

I have been provoked with My people; you have defiled My inheritance; I gave them into your hand, but you did not extend mercy to them; you made the yoke of the aged man very heavy,

Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.

And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle [that] hastens to eat.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You gave them blood to drink. They deserve it."

Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by His might. Pause.

The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered; He uttered His voice, the earth shook.

And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and behold, [there shall be] thick darkness in their perplexity.

We shall hear the neighing of His swift horses out of Dan. The whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of His horses; and He shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.

at the sound of his rushing, at [the sound of] his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels. The fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock; their chariot wheels are as a storm.

And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle [that] hastens to eat.

And the armies in heaven were following Him on white horses, having been dressed in fine linen, white and clean.

And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name having been written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who ride on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great."