哈巴谷書 1
1 先知哈巴谷所得的默示。
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
2 他說：耶和華啊！我呼求你， 你不應允，要到幾時呢？ 我因強暴哀求你，你還不拯救。
Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.
3 你為何使我看見罪孽？ 你為何看着奸惡而不理呢？ 毀滅和強暴在我面前， 又起了爭端和相鬥的事。
Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
4 因此律法放鬆， 公理也不顯明； 惡人圍困義人， 所以公理顯然顛倒。
Therefore the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted.
5 耶和華說：你們要向列國中觀看， 大大驚奇； 因為在你們的時候，我行一件事， 雖有人告訴你們，你們總是不信。
See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for [I] work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be declared [to you].
6 我必興起迦勒底人， 就是那殘忍暴躁之民，通行遍地， 佔據那不屬自己的住處。
For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, which marcheth through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
7 他威武可畏， 判斷和勢力都任意發出。
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 他的馬比豹更快， 比晚上的豺狼更猛。 馬兵踴躍爭先， 都從遠方而來； 他們飛跑如鷹抓食，
And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
9 都為行強暴而來， 定住臉面向前， 將擄掠的人聚集，多如塵沙。
They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
10 他們譏誚君王，笑話首領， 嗤笑一切保障，築壘攻取。
Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a scorn unto him; he derideth every stronghold: for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
11 他以自己的勢力為神， 像風猛然掃過，顯為有罪。
Then will his mind change, and he will pass on, and become guilty: this his power is become his god.
12 耶和華－我的上帝，我的聖者啊， 你不是從亙古而有嗎？ 我們必不致死。 耶和華啊，你派定他為要刑罰人； 磐石啊，你設立他為要懲治人。
— Art thou not from everlasting, Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast appointed him for correction.
13 你眼目清潔， 不看邪僻，不看奸惡； 行詭詐的，你為何看着不理呢？ 惡人吞滅比自己公義的， 你為何靜默不語呢？
[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a [man] more righteous than he?
14 你為何使人如海中的魚， 又如沒有管轄的爬物呢？
And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.
15 他用鉤鉤住，用網捕獲， 用拉網聚集他們； 因此，他歡喜快樂，
He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:
16 就向網獻祭，向網燒香， 因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。
therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty.
17 他豈可屢次倒空網羅， 將列國的人時常殺戮，毫不顧惜呢？
Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
