Catholic Public Domain Version

Habakkuk 1:13-17 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. Your eyes are pure, you do not behold evil, and you cannot look towards iniquity. Why do you look upon the agents of iniquity, and remain silent, while the impious is devouring one who is more just than himself?

14. And you will make men like the fish of the sea and like the creeping things that have no ruler.

15. He lifted up everything with his hook. He drew them in with his dragnet, and gathered them into his netting. Over this, he will rejoice and exult.

16. For this reason, he will offer victims to his dragnet, and he will sacrifice to his netting. For through them, his portion has been made fat, and his meals elite.

17. Because of this, therefore, he expands his dragnet and will not be lenient in continually putting to death the peoples.