1 ¹² Are you not from everlasting,
O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
O Yahweh, you have ordained them as a judgment;
and you, O Rock, have established them for chastisement.
1 ¹³ You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil
and can not look on wrong,
why do you look on faithless men,
and are silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
1 ¹⁴ For you make men like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.
1 ¹⁵ He brings all of them up with a hook,
he drags them out with his net,
he gathers them in his seine;
so he rejoices and exults.
1 ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense to his seine;
for by them he lives in luxury,
and his food is rich.
1 ¹⁷ Is he then to keep on emptying his net,
and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?