Habakkuk 1:12-2:1

Revised Geneva Translation

¹² Are not You of old, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have ordained them for judgment! And, O God, You have established them for correction.

¹³ You are of pure Eyes and cannot consider evil. You cannot regard wickedness. Why do You look upon the transgressors and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours the man who is more righteous than he?

¹⁴ And men who have no ruler over them You make as the fish of the sea and as the creeping things.

¹⁵ They take up all with the hook. They catch it in their net and gather it in their fishing net, over which they rejoice and are glad.

¹⁶ Therefore, they sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their fishing net, because by them their portion is fat and their food plentiful.

¹⁷ Shall they, therefore, stretch out their net while continuing to slay the nations without pity?

2 I will stand upon my watch and set myself upon the tower, and will look and see what He would say to me, and what I shall answer to Him Who rebukes me.