哈巴谷書 1
1 哈巴谷先知在神視中所得的神諭。
This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:
2 上主，我呼救而你不予垂聽，要到何時﹖向你呼喊「殘暴」，而你仍不施救﹖
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
3 為什麼你仗我見到邪惡，人受壓迫，而你竟坐視﹖在我面前，只有壓害和殘暴，爭吵不休，辯論迭起。
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
4 為此法律鬆馳，正義不彰，惡人包圍了義人，因而產生歪曲的審判。
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
5 你們應觀察列邦，且應注意視，你們必要詑異驚奇，因在你們的日子內，我要做一件事，縱然有人述說，你們也不相信。
“Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
6 看，我要激起加色丁人──那殘暴凶猛的民族，向廣大的地區進發，侵佔別人的居所。
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
7 這民族獨斷獨行，目中無人，實令人恐怖。
They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.
8 他們的馬捷於虎豹，猛於夜狼；他們的馬隊由遠方飛奔而來，像撲食的老鷹；
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
9 大事摧殘，而面目焦燥，有如烈風；聚集的俘虜，多似塵沙。
All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
10 他們嘲笑列王，譏諷諸侯，嗤笑任何堡壘只堆一堆土，即可攻下；
They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.
11 然後鼓起勇氣向前猛進，以自己的力量為神。
Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”
12 吾主，你自古不就是我的天主，我的聖者﹖你決不會死亡! 上主，你派他們來是為審判；磐石，你立定他們是為懲罰。
Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
13 你的眼睛這樣純潔，以致見不得邪惡，見不得折磨! 你為什麼垂顧背信的人﹖當惡人吞噬較他們更義的人，你又為什麼緘默﹖
Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
14 你竟把人當作海裏的魚，當作沒有主宰的爬蟲!
You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
15 他們把所有的一切用鉤子鉤上來，用網拉上來，用罟收集起來，為此歡欣踴躍，
The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
16 向網祭獻，向罟焚香，因為給他們帶來了富裕的財物，豐美的飲食。
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
17 難道因此他們就應時常倒空自己的羅，無情地屠殺萬民﹖
Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?
