Habakkuk 1:14
You have made men like the fish of the sea,
What it says
Human beings are pictured as fish of the sea, vulnerable and leaderless before the oppressor.
What it is doing
This verse prepares the imagery of predatory conquest.
In context
12Are You not from everlasting, 13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, 14You have made men like the fish of the sea, 15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; 16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet 17Will he, therefore, empty his net