哈巴谷書 2
1 我要站在守望所， 立在望樓上觀看， 看耶和華對我說甚麼話， 我可用甚麼話向他訴冤。
I will take my stand on my watch-tower, and station myself on a turret. I will watch to see what the Lord will say to me, what answer he will make to my complaint.
2 他對我說：將這默示明明地寫在版上， 使讀的人容易讀。
Then the Lord answered me and said: Inscribe the vision plainly on tablets, so that even someone running by could read it.
3 因為這默示有一定的日期， 快要應驗，並不虛謊。 雖然遲延，還要等候； 因為必然臨到，不再遲延。
Though the vision waits for the time set, it hastens to fulfilment and will not fail; Though it linger long, wait for it. For it surely will come and will not be delayed.
4 迦勒底人自高自大，心不正直； 惟義人因信得生。
The strength of the proud fails, but the upright lives by their faithfulness.
Wealth is treacherous, the arrogant never have enough. They make their desire as wide as Sheol, are like death, unsatisfied, For they gather to themselves all the nations, bring together to themselves all peoples. (Sheol h7585)
6 這些國的民豈不都要提起詩歌並俗語譏刺他說： 禍哉！迦勒底人，你增添不屬自己的財物， 多多取人的當頭，要到幾時為止呢？
Shouldn’t everyone mock them? sing a taunt-song against them, and say: Woe to the person who amasses what is not theirs, and loads them self down with goods taken in pledge!
7 咬傷你的豈不忽然起來， 擾害你的豈不興起， 你就作他們的擄物嗎？
Won’t your creditors suddenly rise, and those who will overthrow you awake, and you become their prey?
8 因你搶奪許多的國，殺人流血， 向國內的城並城中一切居民施行強暴， 所以各國剩下的民都必搶奪你。
For as you have plundered many peoples, the survivors will prey upon you. You have shed blood and committed violence to the earth, peoples and their cities.
9 為本家積蓄不義之財、 在高處搭窩、指望免災的有禍了！
Woe to you who seeks unjust gain for your dynasty, who sets your nest on high to be safe from the reach of misfortune!
10 你圖謀剪除多國的民，犯了罪， 使你的家蒙羞，自害己命。
You have planned only shame for your dynasty. You have destroyed many peoples, and brought guilt upon yourself;
11 牆裏的石頭必呼叫； 房內的棟樑必應聲。
the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber will answer it.
12 以人血建城、 以罪孽立邑的有禍了！
Woe to the person who builds a city by bloodshed, and founds a town by crime
13 眾民所勞碌得來的被火焚燒， 列國由勞乏而得的歸於虛空， 不都是出於萬軍之耶和華嗎？
while the peoples toil for what fires will consume, and the nations weary themselves for nothing! This the Lord of hosts has said,
14 認識耶和華榮耀的知識要充滿遍地， 好像水充滿洋海一般。
and the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the seas are full of water.
15 給人酒喝、又加上毒物、 使他喝醉、好看見他下體的有禍了！
Woe to him who in fury gives drink to his neighbor to make him drunk, and see him naked.
16 你滿受羞辱，不得榮耀； 你也喝吧，顯出是未受割禮的！ 耶和華右手的杯必傳到你那裏； 你的榮耀就變為大大地羞辱。
You are filled with shame, not glory; drink yourself and be uncovered. The cup from the Lord’s hand will pass in turn to you, and shame will cover your glory!
17 你向黎巴嫩行強暴與殘害 驚嚇野獸的事必遮蓋你； 因你殺人流血， 向國內的城並城中一切居民施行強暴。
For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, the destruction of animals will terrify you, because you shed people’s blood on the earth, destroyed people and their cities.
18 雕刻的偶像，人將它刻出來， 有甚麼益處呢？ 鑄造的偶像就是虛謊的師傅。 製造者倚靠這啞巴偶像有甚麼益處呢？
What use is an idol? A human made it, a metal image. It cannot speak, it cannot teach truth, Why does its maker trust it?
19 對木偶說：醒起！ 對啞巴石像說：起來！那人有禍了！ 這個還能教訓人嗎？ 看哪，是包裹金銀的，其中毫無氣息。
Woe to the person who says to a block, awake! to a dumb stone, arise! What can it teach? It may be set with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all within it.
20 惟耶和華在他的聖殿中； 全地的人都當在他面前肅敬靜默。
The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!
