哈巴谷書 2
1 我要立在我的守望台上，置身於堡壘上窺探，看他對我說什麼，看他怎樣答覆我的怨訴。
I will stand upon my watch, and mount upon the rock, and watch to see what he will say by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 上主回答我說：「你寫出這神視，清楚地刻在版上，使人能順利誦讀。
And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and [that] plainly on a tablet, that he that reads it may run.
3 因為這神視有一定的時期，最後必要實現，決無欺詐；若遲廷了，你應等待；它必再來，決不誤期。
For the vision [is] yet for a time, and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should wait, wait for him; for he will surely come, and will not wait.
4 看，心術不正的，必然消逝；人必因他們的信賴而生活。
If he should draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by my faith.
But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples. (Sheol h7585)
6 那時，這些人民豈不都吟諷刺詩，以隱語嘲弄他說：禍哉，那只顧聚歛他人財物的人，堆積抵押於自己家中，要到何時﹖
Shall not all these take up a parable against him? and a proverb to tell against him? and they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! how long? and who heavily loads his yoke.
7 你的債豈不要忽然起來，追債者豈不要醒起，你必成為他們的掠物!
For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and they that plot against you shall awake, and you shall be a plunder to them.
8 因為你搶掠過許多民族，各民族的遺也必要搶掠你；因為你流了人的血，使地域、城市和其中所有的居民遭受了摧殘。
Because you have spoiled many nations, all the nations that are left shall spoil [you], because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.
9 禍哉! 那取重利，而給自家遭禍，並在高處設置高巢，想避免災禍的人!
Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.
10 你消滅許多民族，正是為自家遭來羞恥，危害自己的性命，
You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.
11 因為石頭必由牆中呼喊，棟零樑必由屋脊應和。
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.
12 禍哉，那以血債建造城市，以邪惡建立城鎮的人!
Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.
13 這豈不要出於萬軍上主的意願：列國只為火而勤勞，萬民辛苦只是一場空﹖
Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.
14 因為大地要充滿對上主光榮的知識，就如水充滿海洋。
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.
15 禍哉，那以攙有毒物的給自己近人喝，使他酣醉，圖見他裸體的人!
Woe to him that gives his neighbour to drink the thick lees [of wine], and intoxicates [him], that he may look upon their secret parts.
16 你必飽嘗恥辱，而毫無光榮。如今應該你喝，顯露你未割損之物。上主右手中的杯已輪到了你，恥辱要遮蓋你的光榮。
Drink you also [your] fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon you, and dishonour has gathered upon your glory.
17 你加於黎巴嫩的摧殘，必臨於你；你施於走獸的虐待，必使你恐懼，因為 你流了人的血，使地域、城市和其中所有居民遭受了摧殘。
For the ungodliness of Libanus shall cover you, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.
18 彫像有何用處﹖竟使工匠彫刻它﹖鑄像，即撒謊之師，又有何用，竟值得製造它的人依賴它﹖他不要為自己製造了啞像﹖
What profit it the graven image, that they have graven it? [one] has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
19 禍哉，那對木頭說：「醒來，」對石頭說：「起來」的人! 這樣的東西豈能施救﹖看，它只是塗了一層金銀，內卻毫無氣息。
Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Be you exalted! whereas it is an image, and this is a casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.
20 但上主卻住在自己的聖殿內，整個大地在衪面前都應肅靜。
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth fear before him.
