9. They will all come for violence.Every face will be directed forward.They will gather prisoners like sand.
10. They will make fun of kings and treat rulers as a joke.They will laugh at every fortified cityand build a dirt ramp to capture it.
11. They will move quickly and pass through like the wind.So they will be guilty,because their own strength is their god.
12. Didn’t you exist before time began, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?We will not die!O Lord, you have appointed the Babylonians to bring judgment.O Rock, you have destined them to correct us.
13. Your eyes are too pure to look at evil.You can’t watch wickedness.Why do you keep watching treacherous people?Why are you silent when wicked people swallow thosewho are more righteous than they are?
14. You make all people like the fish in the sea,like schools of sea life that have no ruler.
15. The Babylonians pull them all up with fishhooks,drag them away in nets,and gather them in dragnets.So they rejoice and are happy.
16. That is why they sacrifice to their nets and burn incense to their dragnets.They are rich and well fed because of them.
17. Will they keep on emptying their netsand always kill nations without mercy?