9. All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand.
10. And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it.
11. Then they sweep like the wind and pass on; they become guilty, whose might is their god!”
12. Are you not from of old, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? You shall not die. O Yahweh, you have marked them for judgment; O Rock, you have established them for reproof.
13. Your eyes are too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up someone more righteous than him?
14. You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.
15. He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults.
16. Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet and makes offerings to his dragnet, for by them he makes a good living and his food is rich.
17. Will he therefore empty his fishnet and continually kill nations without showing mercy?