10. He makes fun of kings;rulers are ridiculous to him.He laughs at every fortress,then he piles up dirt and takes it.
11. He passes through like the wind and invades;but he will be held guilty,the one whose strength is his god.
12. Lord, aren’t you ancient, my God, my holy one?Don’t let us die.Lord, you put the Chaldean here for judgment.Rock, you established him as a rebuke.
13. Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;you are unable to look at disaster.Why would you look at the treacherousor keep silent when the wicked swallows one who is more righteous?
14. You made humans like the fish of the sea,like creeping things with no one to rule over them.
15. The Chaldean brings all of them up with a fishhook.He drags them away with a net;he collects them in his fishing net,then he rejoices and celebrates.
16. Therefore, he sacrifices to his net;he burns incense to his fishing nets,because due to them his portion grows fatand his food becomes luxurious.
17. Should he continue to empty his netand continue to slay nations without sparing them?