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Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Are You not from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One? We will not die.
O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment;
    and You, O Rock, have established them for correction.
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,
    and You cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
    and hold Your tongue when the wicked
    devours the man who is more righteous than he?
14 You make men like fish of the sea,
    like crawling things that have no ruler.
15 They bring all of them up with a hook,
    they catch them in their net;
they gather them in their dragnet.
    Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net
    and burn incense to their dragnet;
for by them their portion is extravagant,
    and their food plentiful.
17 Shall they continue to empty their net,
    and continually kill the nations while not sparing anyone?

I will stand at my watch
    and station myself on the watchtower;
and I will keep watch to see what He will say to me,
    and what I will answer when I am reproved.

12 Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction. 13 Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he; 14 and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? 15 He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food [a]plenteous. 17 Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the [b]tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak [c]with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:16 Hebrew fat.
  2. Habakkuk 2:1 Or, fortress
  3. Habakkuk 2:1 Or, by