(Habakkuk)

12 Are you not eternal, Lord,

my holy one, who does not die?

Lord you have appointed them to execute judgment,

my rock, you have established them to punish.

13 Your eyes are too pure to look at evil,

you cannot condone iniquity.

So why do you regard the treacherous in silence,

while the wicked swallows the upright?

14 You have made people like the fish of the sea,

like reptiles that have no ruler.

15 The wicked sweep them all into their nets,

and gather them into their drag-nets,

and rejoice and celebrate.

16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net,

and burn offerings to their drag-net;

for by their nets are their portions generous,

and their food is rich.

17 Will they empty their nets continually,

slaughter nations unpityingly?

2 I will take my stand on my watch-tower,

and station myself on a turret.

I will watch to see what the Lord will say to me,

what answer he will make to my complaint.