Is he then to keep on emptying his net and destroying nations without mercy?
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
that struck down the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
Those who fish will mourn; all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the water will languish.
For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the animals will terrify you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.