For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation which is proceeding into the breadth of the land, to possess dwellings that are not their own.

You marched through the land in indignation. You threshed the nations in anger.

Then he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Jehovah. So they made him ride in his chariot.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work nor reasoning nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol where you go.

Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and who brings out a tool for his work; and I have created the one who ruins to destroy.

But news from the east and from the north shall trouble him. And he will go out with great fury to utterly destroy and annihilate many.