Habakkuk 1:12-2:1

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹² Didn’t you exist before time began, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die!
O Lord, you have appointed the Babylonians to bring judgment.
O Rock, you have destined them to correct us.
¹³ Your eyes are too pure to look at evil.
You can’t watch wickedness.
Why do you keep watching treacherous people?
Why are you silent when wicked people swallow those
who are more righteous than they are?
¹⁴ You make all people like the fish in the sea,
like schools of sea life that have no ruler.
¹⁵ The Babylonians pull them all up with fishhooks,
drag them away in nets,
and gather them in dragnets.
So they rejoice and are happy.
¹⁶ That is why they sacrifice to their nets and burn incense to their dragnets.
They are rich and well fed because of them.
¹⁷ Will they keep on emptying their nets
and always kill nations without mercy?

2 I will stand at my guard post.
I will station myself on the wall.
I will watch to see what he will say to me
and what answer I will get to my complaint.