Passage

People caught in a net

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹⁵He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

Habakkuk 1:15World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

People are compared to fish caught with a hook, a net and a dragnet.

To understand

The one who catches them rejoices, then sacrifices to the net and burns incense to the dragnet. He attributes his rich food to the equipment used to catch them.

A question

What does the captor do to the net that supplies his food?