⁷ They are a feared and dreaded people;^(A)
    they are a law to themselves
    and promote their own honor.
⁸ Their horses are swifter^(B) than leopards,
    fiercer than wolves^(C) at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
    their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
⁹     they all come intent on violence.
Their hordes^[a] advance like a desert wind
    and gather prisoners^(D) like sand.
¹⁰ They mock kings
    and scoff at rulers.^(E)
They laugh at all fortified cities;
    by building earthen ramps^(F) they capture them.
¹¹ Then they sweep past like the wind^(G) and go on—
    guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”^(H)