4 Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

5 “Look amongst the nations, watch, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

6 For, behold, [2] I raise up the Kasdim, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.