OLORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!evencry out unto theeofviolence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and causemeto behold grievance? for spoiling and violencearebefore me: and there arethatraise up strife and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: forIwill work a work in your days,whichye will not believe, though it be toldyou.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans,thatbitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplacesthat arenot theirs.
Theyareterrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eaglethathasteth to eat.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup upasthe east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Then shallhismind change, and he shall pass over, and offend,imputingthis his power unto his god.
Artthou not from everlasting, OLORDmy God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. OLORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Thou artof purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously,andholdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureththe man that ismore righteous than he?
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things,that haveno ruler over them?
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portionisfat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?