Habakkuk 1:12-17

New American Standard Bible

¹² Are You not from ^(A)time everlasting,
Lord, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die.
You, Lord, have ^(B)appointed them to deliver judgment;
And You, O ^(C)Rock, have destined them to punish.
¹³ Your eyes are too ^(D)pure to look at evil,
And You cannot look at harm favorably.
Why do You ^(E)look favorably
At those who deal ^(F)treacherously?
Why are You ^(G)silent when the wicked ^(H)swallow up
Those more righteous than they?
¹⁴ Why have You made people like the fish of the sea,
Like crawling things that have no ruler over them?
¹⁵ The Chaldeans ^(I)bring all of them up with a hook,
^(J)Drag them away with their net,
And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they rejoice and are joyful.
¹⁶ Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net
And ^[a]burn incense to their fishing net,
Because through ^(K)these things their ^[b]catch is ^[c]large,
And their food is ^[d]plentiful.
¹⁷ Will they therefore empty their ^(L)net,
And continually ^(M)slay nations without sparing?