Habakkuk's Second Complaint

Habakkuk 1

¹² Are you not from of old,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
You ₁ shall not die.
O Lord, you have marked them for judgment;
and you, O Rock, have established them for punishment.
¹³ Your eyes are too pure to behold evil,
and you cannot look on wrongdoing;
why do you look on the treacherous,
and are silent when the wicked swallow
those more righteous than they?
¹⁴ You have made people like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.

¹⁵ The enemy ₂ 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.
¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and makes offerings to his seine;
for by them his portion is lavish,
and his food is rich.
¹⁷ Is he then to keep on emptying his net,
and destroying nations without mercy?

Habakkuk 2

¹ I will stand at my watchpost,

and station myself on the rampart;
I will keep watch to see what he will say to me,
and what he ₃ will answer concerning my complaint.