⁷ therefore, I will bring strangers against you,
    the most terrible of the nations;
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
    and defile your splendor.^(A)

⁵ I will strew your flesh on the mountains
    and fill the valleys with your carcass.^[a]

¹⁷ Your guards are like grasshoppers,
    your scribes like swarms^[a] of locusts
settling on the fences
    on a cold day—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
    no one knows where they have gone.

⁶ For I am rousing the Chaldeans,
    that fierce and impetuous nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth
    to seize dwellings not their own.^(A)