9. All of them come for violence— an assembling of faces to the east. He gathers captives like sand.
10. He scoffs at kings, and rulers are a joke to him. He laughs at every stronghold— he heaps up dirt and takes it.
11. Then a wind sweeps through and passes on. He is guilty— This, his strength, is his god.”
12. Are not You from antiquity— Adonai my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Adonai, You have ordained him for judgment—as You, O Rock, have established him to chasten.
13. With eyes too pure to see evil You cannot look at such trouble! Why do You look at the treacherous? Why do You remain silent when a wicked one swallows up those more righteous than him?
14. You made man like the fish of the sea, like a creeping thing— with no one ruling over him.
15. He brings up all with hook in jaw, drags away in his dragnet, or gathers with his fishing-net. Therefore he rejoices with glee.
16. Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet, and offers incense to his fishing-net. For through them his portion is rich and his food abundant.
17. Will he empty his net for this reason —continually slaying nations— with no compassion?