8“Their horses are swifter than leopards
         And keener than wolves in the evening.
         Their horsemen come galloping,
         Their horsemen come from afar;
         They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

9“All of them come for violence.
         Their horde of faces moves forward.
         They collect captives like sand.

10“They mock at kings
         And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
         They laugh at every fortress
         And heap up rubble to capture it.

11“Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on.
         But they will be held guilty,
         They whose strength is their god.”

12Are You not from everlasting,
         O LORD, my God, my Holy One?
         We will not die.
         You, O LORD, have appointed them to judge;
         And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.

13Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,
         And You can not look on wickedness with favor.
         Why do You look with favor
         On those who deal treacherously?
         Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up
         Those more righteous than they?

14Why have You made men like the fish of the sea,
         Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

15The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,
         Drag them away with their net,
         And gather them together in their fishing net.
         Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net
         And burn incense to their fishing net;
         Because through these things their catch is large,
         And their food is plentiful.

17Will they therefore empty their net
         And continually slay nations without sparing?

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