⁵ “Look at the nations!
    Watch them and be ·amazed and shocked [utterly astounded].
I will do something in your ·lifetime [^Ldays]
    that you won’t believe even when you are told about it.
⁶ I will ·use [raise up] the ·Babylonians [^LChaldeans],
    those ·cruel [ruthless; bitter] and ·wild [impetuous; hasty] people
who march across the earth
    and ·take lands [^Lseize dwellings] that don’t belong to them.
⁷ They scare and ·frighten [terrify] people.
    ·They do what they want to do
    and are good only to themselves [^LTheir justice/judgment and dignity proceed from themselves].