Habakkuk 1:12 - 2:1

Are You not from everlasting,

O Yahweh, my God, my Holy One?

We will not die.

You, O Yahweh, have placed them to judge;

And You, O Rock, have established them to reprove.

Your eyes are too pure to see evil,

And You cannot look on trouble.

Why do You look

On those who deal treacherously?

Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up

Those more righteous than they?

And You have made men like the fish of the sea,

Like creeping things without a ruler over them.

The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,

Drag them away with their net,

And gather them together in their fishing net.

Therefore they are glad and rejoice.

Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net

And burn incense to their fishing net

Because through these things their portion is rich

And their food is fat.

Will they therefore empty their net

And continually kill nations without sparing?

I will stand on my guard post

And station myself on the fortification;

And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me

And how I may respond when I am reproved.