Habakkuk 1
1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Carga que vio Habacuc profeta.
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.
¿Hasta cuándo, Yahvé, he de clamar sin que Tú me escuches? ¿Hasta cuándo daré voces a Ti por la violencia sin que me salves?
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.
¿Por qué me haces ver la iniquidad y contemplas lo que sufro? Devastación y violencia están ante mis ojos; hay pleitos y surgen contiendas.
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.
Por eso se embota la ley, y nunca sale sentencia justa; el inicuo rodea al justo, y así sale torcido el derecho.
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.
Mirad a las naciones y observad; admiraos y llenaos de espanto; pues voy a hacer una obra en vuestros días, que no creeríais si alguien la contase.
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.
Pues he aquí que suscitaré a los caldeos, ese pueblo cruel e impetuoso que recorre las anchuras de la tierra, para ocupar moradas que no son suyas.
7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
Es horrible y espantoso, y crea él mismo su derecho y su grandeza.
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.
Sus caballos son más ligeros que el leopardo y más feroces que el lobo nocturno. Se lanza la caballería, sus jinetes llegan de lejos; vuelan cual águila que se da prisa para devorar.
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.
Vienen todos ellos para hacer violencia; viento abrasador va delante de ellos; toman cautivos tan numerosos como la arena.
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.
(Es un pueblo) que se burla de los reyes, y se ríe de los príncipes; se mofa de todas las fortalezas, alza terraplenes y las toma.
11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
Luego, como el huracán, cambia de rumbo y pasa, y se acarrea culpa (imputando) su fuerza a su dios.
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.
¿No eres Tú, oh Yahvé, desde la eternidad, el Dios mío, mi Santo? No moriremos, porque Tú, Yahvé, hiciste (aquel pueblo) para ejercer tu justicia; Tú, oh Roca, le has establecido para aplicar castigos.
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?
Tus ojos son demasiado puros para mirar el mal, y no puedes ver la injusticia. ¿Por qué, pues, soportas a los pérfidos y callas cuando el inicuo devora al que es más justo que él?
14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
¿Por qué hiciste a los hombres como los peces del mar, como los reptiles que no tienen quien los gobierne?
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.
A todos ellos los pesca aquel con el anzuelo; los arrastra con su red, y los reúne en su barredera; por eso se goza y está alegre.
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.
Y por eso ofrece sacrificios a su red, e incienso a su barredera; pues gracias a ellos es pingüe su porción, y suculenta su comida.
17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
¿Es posible que siga vaciando su red, y continúe destrozando sin piedad a los pueblos?
