Bible Verses

You treat human beings like fish in the sea, like reptiles who are nobody’s concern.

The Lord, your eyes are too pure to tolerate wickedness, and you cannot look on oppression. Why, then, do you look on treacherous people and watch in silence while the evildoer swallows up one better than himself?

Plea and Description But you, are you not the Lord from old ages? You, my holy God, cannot die. You have set these people to serve your justice, and you have made them as firm as a rock, to carry out your punishment.

Thus, they come and go like the wind! Their strength is their god!

These people mock kings and laugh at princes; they dismiss fortified cities by building up an embankment and seizing them.

When they charge, driven by the desert wind, they gather prisoners like sand.

Their horses are faster than leopards, fiercer than wolves in the plain; their riders gallop on, coming from afar; they swoop like eagles descending on prey.

I call a terrible and dangerous nation that obeys no law but its own will.

I am going to call the Chaldeans, that terrifying and violent people who raid to the ends of the earth to seize others’ lands.

Look, traitors, and pay attention; be amazed, because I will do in your own days something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you.