哈巴谷書 1
1 哈巴谷先知在神視中所得的神諭。
The message seen by the prophet Habakkuk.
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, Lord, have I cried out and without you hearing me! I cry to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not help.
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 look upon wickedness and behold trouble? Destruction and violence are before my eyes, and fighting and quarrelling.
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 weak, and justice is never rendered; for the wicked surround 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, look well, be shocked and amazed. For I am about to do a work in your days; you will not believe it when it is told.
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 I am about to raise up the Chaldeans, a nation grim and quick of action who sweep over the whole 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 bring fear and terror. They write their own rules.
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, quicker than wolves hunting at dusk. From afar they come swooping down, like an eagle attacking its prey.
9 大事摧殘，而面目焦燥，有如烈風；聚集的俘虜，多似塵沙。
They all come to do violence, a horde like a desert wind, they gather up captives 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；
At kings they scoff, and princes are sport to them. They laugh at every fortress, and heap up earth to take it.
11 然後鼓起勇氣向前猛進，以自己的力量為神。
Then they sweep on like the wind, Their 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 eternal, Lord, my holy one, who does not die? Lord you have appointed them to execute judgment, my rock, you have established them to punish.
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 at evil, you cannot condone iniquity. So why do you regard the treacherous in silence, while the wicked swallows the upright?
14 你竟把人當作海裏的魚，當作沒有主宰的爬蟲!
You have made people like the fish of the sea, like reptiles 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 wicked sweep them all into their nets, and gather them into their drag-nets, and rejoice and celebrate.
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 they sacrifice to their net, and burn offerings to their drag-net; for by their nets are their portions generous, and their 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 they empty their nets continually, slaughter nations unpityingly?
