哈巴谷書 1
1 哈巴谷先知在神視中所得的神諭。
The oracle of which Habakkuk the prophet, had 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 Yahweh, have I called out, and thou wouldst not hear me? Have I kept crying unto thee of violence, and thou wouldst 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。
Wherefore shouldst thou let me see iniquity, and, wrong, shouldst let me behold, and, force and violence, be straight before me, —and there should have ever been someone who, contention and strife, would uphold?
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。
For which cause, benumbed is the law, and there is never any going forth of justice, —for, the lawless, doth circumvent the righteous, for which cause, justice doth go forth 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。
Behold ye, among the nations, and look around, Yea stand stock still—stare, —for, a work, is being wrought in your days, ye will not believe, when it is recounted.
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 me! raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and headlong nation, —that marcheth to the breadths of the earth, to take possession of habitations, not his.
7 這民族獨斷獨行，目中無人，實令人恐怖。
Awful and fearful, is he, —from himself, his decision and his uprising, proceed.
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；
Then, swifter than leopards, are his horses, and, more sharply they attack, than evening wolves, and forward have leapt his chargers, —Yea, his chargers, from afar, will come in, they will fly as an eagle hath hastened 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。
Solely for violence, will he come, the intent of their faces, is—To the east! And he hath gathered, as the sand, a captive host;
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；
And, he, over kings, will make merry, and, nobles, will be a scorn to him: he, at any fortress, will laugh, once he hath heaped up dust, he hath captured it!
11 然後鼓起勇氣向前猛進，以自己的力量為神。
Then, hath he become arrogant in spirit, and hath committed excess, and so is guilty, —this his violence, is due to his 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。
Art not, thou, from of old, O Yahweh, my God, my Holy One? Thou diest not! O Yahweh, to judgment, hast thou appointed him, and, O Rock, to correction, hast thou devoted him:
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﹖
[Thou] whose eyes are too pure to look with approval on wrong, to respect oppression, canst not endure, —Wherefore, shouldst thou respect the treacherous? Be silent, when the lawless, swalloweth up, one more righteous than he?
14 你竟把人當作海裏的魚，當作沒有主宰的爬蟲!
So wouldst thou have made Men, like the fishes of the sea, —like the creeping thing that hath no ruler over it:
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，
All of which, with a hook, one bringeth up, raketh together with his drag, and hath gathered with his net, —
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。
On which account, he is glad and exulteth: on which account, he sacrificeth to his Net, and burneth incense to his Drag; because, thereby, rich, is his portion, and his food—fatness!
17 難道因此他們就應時常倒空自己的羅，無情地屠殺萬民﹖
Shall he, on this account, empty his net? And, the continual slaying of nations, deem to be no pity?
