¹³ Your eyes are too pure^(A) to look on evil;
    you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.^(B)
Why then do you tolerate^(C) the treacherous?^(D)
    Why are you silent while the wicked
    swallow up those more righteous than themselves?^(E)

12 You are always righteous,^(A) Lord,
    when I bring a case^(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:^(C)
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?^(D)
    Why do all the faithless live at ease?
² You have planted^(E) them, and they have taken root;
    they grow and bear fruit.^(F)
You are always on their lips
    but far from their hearts.^(G)

³ Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate^(A) wrongdoing?^(B)
Destruction and violence^(C) are before me;
    there is strife,^(D) and conflict abounds.
⁴ Therefore the law^(E) is paralyzed,
    and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
    so that justice^(F) is perverted.^(G)

³ Our God comes^(A)
    and will not be silent;^(B)
a fire devours^(C) before him,^(D)
    and around him a tempest^(E) rages.