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Habakkuk 1:12-17

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12Are You not from time everlasting,

Lord, my God, my Holy One?

We will not die.

You, Lord, have appointed them to deliver judgment;

And You, O Rock, have destined them to punish.

13Your eyes are too pure to look at evil,

And You cannot look at harm favorably.

Why do You look favorably

At those who deal treacherously?

Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up

Those more righteous than they?

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

Like crawling things that have no ruler over them?

15The 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 rejoice and are joyful.

16Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net

And burn incense to their fishing net,

Because through these things their catch is large,

And their food is plentiful.

17Will they therefore empty their net,

And continually slay nations without sparing?