Habakkuk 1
1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
La 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, oh SEÑOR, clamaré, y no oirás; y daré voces a ti a causa de la violencia, y no salvarás?
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 iniquidad, y haces que mire molestia, y destrucción y violencia delante de mí, habiendo además quien levante pleito y contienda?
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 lo cual la ley es debilitada, y el juicio no sale verdadero; por cuanto el impío asedia al justo, por eso sale torcido el juicio.
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 entre los gentiles, y ved, y maravillaos pasmosamente; porque obra será hecha en vuestros días, que aun cuando se os contare, no la creeréis.
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.
Porque he aquí, yo levanto a los caldeos, gente amarga y presurosa, que camina por la anchura de la tierra para poseer las habitaciones ajenas.
7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
Espantosa es y terrible; de ella misma saldrá 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.
Y serán sus caballos más ligeros que tigres, y más agudos que lobos de tarde; y sus jinetes se multiplicarán; vendrán de lejos sus caballeros, y volarán como águilas que se apresuran a la comida.
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.
Toda ella vendrá a la presa; delante de sus caras viento solano; y juntará cautivos como 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.
Y él escarnecerá de los reyes, y de los príncipes hará burla; él se reirá de toda fortaleza, y amontonará polvo, y la tomará.
11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
Entonces él se ensoberbecerá contra Dios, y pasará adelante, y ofenderá atribuyendo ésta su potencia 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 desde el principio, oh SEÑOR, Dios mío, Santo mío? No moriremos oh SEÑOR, para juicio lo pusiste; y fuerte lo fundaste para castigar.
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?
Limpio eres de ojos para no ver el mal, ni puedes ver el agravio; ¿por qué ves a los menospreciadores, y callas cuando destruye el impío al más justo que él.
14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
Y haces que sean los hombres como los peces del mar, como reptiles que no tienen señor?
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.
Sacará a todos con su anzuelo, los cogerá con su malla, y los juntará en su red; por lo cual se regocijará y hará alegrías.
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.
Por esto hará sacrificios a su malla, y ofrecerá sahumerios a su red; porque con ellos engordó su porción, y engrasó su comida.
17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
¿Vaciará por eso su red, o tendrá piedad de matar gentiles continuamente?
