Habakkuk 1:17
Will he, therefore, empty his net
What it says
Habakkuk asks whether the oppressor will keep emptying his net and slaughtering nations without mercy.
What it is doing
This verse ends the chapter with the unresolved question that drives the book forward.
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