2 For how long, Yahweh, must I call for help before you listen?

≈I cry out about the violence, but you haven’t rescued me.

3 Why do I have to keep seeing injustice and looking at trouble?

≈Destruction and violence are all around—there’s such strife, and conflicts keep happening.

4 That’s why the law is paralysed and why justice doesn’t prevail—

because those who do good are surrounded by wicked people, so justice gets perverted.