Habakkuk 1:12-2:1

Lexham English Bible

¹² Are you not from of old,
    O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?
    You^[a] shall not die.
O Yahweh, you have marked them^[b] for judgment;
    O Rock, you have established them^[c] for reproof.
¹³ Your eyes are too pure to see evil,
    and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.^[d]
Why do you look at the treacherous?
Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up
    someone more righteous than him?
¹⁴ You make humankind like fish of the sea,
    like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.
¹⁵ He brings up all of them with a fishhook;
    he drags them up with a fishnet;
he gathers them in his dragnet.
    Therefore, he rejoices and exults.
¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet
    and makes offerings to his dragnet,
for by them he makes a good living^[e]
    and his food is rich.
¹⁷ Will he therefore empty his fishnet
    and continually kill nations without showing mercy?

2 I will stand at my post,
    and station myself on the rampart.
And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me,
    and what he will answer concerning my complaint.