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Their whole army comes to do violent things.
    They march forward like a wind from the desert.
They make people their prisoners,
    as easily as if they are picking up sand.
10 They insult kings,
    and they laugh at rulers.
They laugh at all the strong cities of their enemies.
They build heaps of earth against the walls,
    and they take those cities for themselves.
11 Their army quickly moves on to another place,
    like a wind that blows.
They think that their own god has made them strong,
    and so they are guilty.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 God says that he will use a cruel, wicked nation to punish his own people.