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² O Lord, ^(b)how long shall I cry for help,
    and you will not hear?
Or cry to you ^(c)"Violence!"
    and you will not save?
^3 (d)Why do you make me see iniquity,
    and why do you idly look at wrong?
Destruction ^(e)and violence are before me;
    strife and contention arise.
^4 (f)So the law is paralyzed,
    and justice never goes forth.
^(g)For the wicked surround the righteous;
    so justice goes forth perverted.

^5 (h)"Look among the nations, and see;
    wonder and be astounded.
⁽ⁱ⁾For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe if told.
⁶ For behold, ^(j)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
^(k)who march through the breadth of the earth,
    ^(l)to seize dwellings not their own.
⁷ They are dreaded and fearsome;
    ^(m)their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
^8 (n)Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more fierce than ^(o)the evening wolves;
    their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
    ^(p)they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
⁹ They all come ^(q)for violence,
    all their faces forward.
    They gather captives ^(r)like sand.
¹⁰ At kings they scoff,
    and at rulers they laugh.
^(s)They laugh at every fortress,
    for ^(t)they pile up earth and take it.
¹¹ Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
    ^(u)guilty men, ^(v)whose own might is their god!"

¹² Are you not ^(w)from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One?
    ^(x)We shall not die.
O Lord, ^(y)you have ordained them as a judgment,
    and you, O ^(z)Rock, have established them for reproof.
¹³ You who are ^(aa)of purer eyes than to see evil
    and cannot look at wrong,
^(ab)why do you idly look at traitors
    and ^(ac)remain silent when the wicked swallows up
    the man more righteous than he?
¹⁴ You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
    like crawling things that have no ruler.
^15 (ad)He^[a] brings all of them up ^(ae)with a hook;
    he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
    so he rejoices and is glad.
^16 (af)Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,^[b]
    and his food is rich.
¹⁷ Is he then to keep on emptying his net
    ^(ag)and mercilessly killing nations forever?