Habakkuk 1
1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Inilah pesan yang dinyatakan oleh TUHAN kepada Nabi Habakuk.
2 How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
Ya TUHAN, sampai kapan aku harus berseru meminta pertolongan? Kapan Engkau akan mendengar dan menyelamatkan kami dari penindasan?
3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
Mengapa Kaubiarkan aku melihat begitu banyak kejahatan? Masakan Engkau tahan melihat begitu banyak pelanggaran? Di mana-mana ada kehancuran dan kekerasan, perkelahian dan perselisihan.
4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
Hukum diremehkan dan keadilan tak pernah ditegakkan. Orang jahat menjadi unggul atas orang yang jujur, maka keadilan diputarbalikkan.
5 See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.
Kemudian TUHAN berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Perhatikanlah bangsa-bangsa di sekitarmu, maka kamu akan heran dan tercengang. Sebab pada zamanmu Aku akan melakukan sesuatu, yang tidak kamu percayai kalau hanya diceritakan kepadamu.
6 For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
Bangsa Babel yang galak dan ganas itu akan Kujadikan bangsa yang berkuasa. Mereka berbaris keluar dari negerinya dan menjelajahi seluruh dunia untuk menaklukkan bangsa-bangsa lain.
7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
Di mana-mana mereka menimbulkan ketakutan; dengan sombong mereka menolak semua hukum kecuali yang sesuai dengan keinginan mereka.
8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
Kudanya lebih cepat daripada macan tutul, dan lebih ganas daripada serigala yang sedang lapar. Pasukan berkudanya datang dari negeri-negeri jauh; mereka datang seperti burung elang yang menyambar mangsanya.
9 They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
Tentaranya menyerbu untuk melakukan kekerasan, semua orang gentar melihat kedatangan mereka. Tawanan mereka tidak terhitung jumlahnya.
10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
Mereka mengejek raja-raja dan menertawakan pegawai-pegawai tinggi. Dianggapnya remeh setiap benteng, dan ditimbunnya tanah lalu direbutnya benteng itu.
11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
Lalu secepat angin berangkatlah orang-orang yang mendewakan kekuatannya sendiri itu."
12 Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
TUHAN, sejak dahulu Engkau adalah Allah. Engkau Allahku yang suci dan kekal. TUHAN, Allahku dan pelindungku, bangsa Babel itu Kaupilih dan Kaubuat perkasa untuk menghukum kami.
13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
Tetapi bagaimana Engkau tahan melihat orang-orang jahat yang kejam itu? Bukankah Engkau terlalu suci untuk memandang kejahatan? Bukankah Engkau merasa muak melihat ketidakadilan? Jadi, mengapa Engkau diam saja ketika orang yang saleh dihancurkan oleh pendurhaka?
14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
Mengapa manusia Kauanggap seperti ikan di laut, dan seperti serangga yang tak ada pemimpinnya?
15 He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
Bangsa Babel menangkap orang-orang dengan kail, seolah-olah mereka itu ikan. Orang-orang itu diseret dalam jala-jala dan bangsa Babel bersenang-senang dengan hasil mereka.
16 For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
Kemudian jala itu mereka sembah dan mereka beri persembahan kurban, sebab dengan jala itu mereka telah mendapat rejeki berlimpah-limpah dan menjadi makmur.
17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
Masakan mereka akan terus menghunus pedangnya dan membunuh bangsa-bangsa, tanpa ampun?
