Habakkuk 1
1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
預言者ハバククが示を蒙りし預言の重負
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.
ヱホバよ我呼はるに汝の我に聽たまはざること何時までぞや 我なんぢにむかひて強暴を訴ふれども汝は助けたまはざるなり
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.
汝なにとて我に害惡を見せたまふや 何とて艱難を瞻望居たまふや 奪掠および強暴わが前に行はる且爭論あり鬪諍おこる
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.
是によりて律法弛み公義正しく行はれず惡き者義しき者を圍むが故に公義曲りて行はる
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.
汝ら國々の民の中を望み觀おどろけ駭け 汝らの日に我一の事を爲ん 之を告る者あるとも汝ら信ぜざらん
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.
視よ我カルデヤ人を興さんとす 是すなはち猛くまた荒き國人にして地を縦横に行めぐり 己の有ならざる住處を奪ふ者なり
7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
是は懼るべく又驚くべし 其是非威光は己より出づ
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.
その馬は豹よりも迅く夜求食する豺狼よりも疾し 其騎兵は跑まはる 即ちその騎兵は遠き處より來る 其飛ことは物を食はんと急ぐ鷲のごとし
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.
是は全く強暴のために來り 其面を前にむけて頻に進むその俘虜を寄集むることは砂のごとし
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.
是は王等を侮り君等を笑ひ諸の城々を笑ひ土を積あげてこれを取ん
11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
斯て風のごとくに行めぐり進みわたりて罪を獲ん 是は己の力を神とす
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.
ヱホバわが神わが聖者よ 汝は永遠より在すに非ずや 我らは死なじ ヱホバよ汝は是を審判のために設けたまへり 磐よ汝は是を懲戒のために立たまへり
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?
汝は目清くして肯て惡を觀たまはざる者 肯て不義を視たまはざる者なるに何ゆゑ邪曲の者を觀すて置たまふや 惡き者を己にまさりて義しき者を呑噬ふに何ゆゑ汝默し居たまふや
14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
汝は人をして海の魚のごとくならしめ君あらぬ昆蟲のごとくならしめたまふ
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.
彼鈎をもて之を盡く釣あげ網をもて之を寄せ集め引網をもて之を捕ふるなり 是に因て彼歡び樂しむ
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.
是故に彼その網に犠牲を獻げその引網に香を焚く 其は之がためにその分肥まさりその食饒になりたればなり
17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
然ど彼はその網を傾けつつなほたえず國々の人を惜みなく殺すことをするならんか
