All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.

Because of his success he offers sacrifices to his throw net and burns incense to his dragnet; for because of them he has plenty of food, and more than enough to eat.