Habakkuk 1:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹³Your eyes are too pure to behold evil,
    and you cannot look on wrongdoing;
why do you look on the treacherous,
    and are silent when the wicked swallow
    those more righteous than they?
¹⁴You have made people like the fish of the sea,
    like crawling things that have no ruler.

¹⁵The enemy^[a] brings all of them up with a hook;
he drags them out with his net,
he gathers them in his seine;
so he rejoices and exults.

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