Habakkuk 1:12-2:1

Common English Bible

¹² Lord, aren’t you ancient, my God, my holy one?
Don’t let us die.^[a]
Lord, you put the Chaldean here for judgment.
        Rock, you established him as a rebuke.
¹³ Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
        you are unable to look at disaster.
Why would you look at the treacherous
        or keep silent when the wicked swallows one who is more righteous?
¹⁴ You made humans like the fish of the sea,
        like creeping things with no one to rule over them.
¹⁵ The Chaldean brings all of them up with a fishhook.
        He drags them away with a net;
        he collects them in his fishing net,
            then he rejoices and celebrates.
¹⁶ Therefore, he sacrifices to his net;
        he burns incense to his fishing nets,
            because due to them his portion grows fat
                and his food becomes luxurious.
¹⁷ Should he continue to empty his net
        and continue to slay nations without sparing them?