² How long,^(A) Lord, must I call for help,
    but you do not listen?^(B)
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
    but you do not save?^(C)
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate^(D) wrongdoing?^(E)
Destruction and violence^(F) are before me;
    there is strife,^(G) and conflict abounds.
⁴ Therefore the law^(H) is paralyzed,
    and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
    so that justice^(I) is perverted.^(J)

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)
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.