12. Are You not from everlasting, O יהוה my Elohim, my Set-apart One? You do not die! O יהוה, You have appointed them for right-ruling, O Rock, You have established them for reproof.
13. You, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously – keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?
14. And would You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping creatures that have no ruler over them?
15. The wicked foe has pulled all of them up with a hook, caught them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and exults.
16. Therefore he offers to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, for by them is his portion fat and his food is rich.
17. Is he therefore to keep on emptying his net, and slaying nations without sparing?