You have made mankind like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler. He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them away in his net; he gathers them in his dragnet—the image of humans as fish depicts powerlessness before overwhelming force; the Chaldean king (as fisherman) exercises control over life and death. This depiction of humanity as passive prey suggests a cosmos devoid of moral order, where power alone determines fate. The verse expresses the horror of mechanized, impersonal conquest.

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