(Habakkuk)

2 How long, Lord, have I cried out

and without you hearing me!

I cry to you, ‘Violence!’

but you do not help.

3 Why do you make me look upon wickedness

and behold trouble?

Destruction and violence are before my eyes,

and fighting and quarrelling.

4 Therefore the law is weak,

and justice is never rendered;

for the wicked surround the righteous,

so that justice is perverted.