¹² Are You not from ^(A)everlasting,
O Yahweh, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die.
You, O Yahweh, have ^(B)placed them to judge;
And You, O ^(C)Rock, have established them to reprove.
¹³ Your eyes are too ^(D)pure to see evil,
And You cannot look on trouble.
Why do You ^(E)look
On those who deal ^(F)treacherously?
Why are You ^(G)silent when the wicked ^(H)swallow up
Those more righteous than they?
¹⁴ And You have made men like the fish of the sea,
Like creeping things without a ruler over them.
¹⁵ The Chaldeans ^(I)bring all of them up with a hook,
^(J)Drag them away with their net,
And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they are glad and rejoice.
¹⁶ Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net
And ^[a]burn incense to their fishing net
Because through ^(K)these things their portion is rich
And their food is fat.
¹⁷ Will they therefore empty their ^(L)net
And continually ^(M)kill nations without sparing?

2 I will ^(N)stand on my guard post
And station myself on the fortification;
And I will ^(O)keep watch to see ^(P)what He will speak to me
And how I may respond ^[b]when I am reproved.