Habakkuk 1
1 The burden that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
哈巴谷先知在神視中所得的神諭。
2 How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not heed? Shall I shout to you while suffering violence, and you will not save?
上主，我呼救而你不予垂聽，要到何時﹖向你呼喊「殘暴」，而你仍不施救﹖
3 Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.
為什麼你仗我見到邪惡，人受壓迫，而你竟坐視﹖在我面前，只有壓害和殘暴，爭吵不休，辯論迭起。
4 Because of this, the law has been torn apart, and judgment does not persevere to its conclusion. For the impious prevail against the just. Because of this, a perverse judgment is issued.
為此法律鬆馳，正義不彰，惡人包圍了義人，因而產生歪曲的審判。
5 Gaze among the nations, and see. Admire, and be astounded. For a work has been done in your days, which no one will believe when it is told.
你們應觀察列邦，且應注意視，你們必要詑異驚奇，因在你們的日子內，我要做一件事，縱然有人述說，你們也不相信。
6 For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift people, marching across the width of the earth, to possess tabernacles not their own.
看，我要激起加色丁人──那殘暴凶猛的民族，向廣大的地區進發，侵佔別人的居所。
7 It is dreadful and terrible. From themselves, judgment and their burden will issue.
這民族獨斷獨行，目中無人，實令人恐怖。
8 Their horses are more nimble than leopards and swifter than wolves in the evening; their horsemen will spread out. And then their horsemen will approach from far away; they will fly like the eagle, hurrying to devour.
他們的馬捷於虎豹，猛於夜狼；他們的馬隊由遠方飛奔而來，像撲食的老鷹；
9 They will all approach towards the prey; their face is like a burning wind. And they will gather captives together like sand.
大事摧殘，而面目焦燥，有如烈風；聚集的俘虜，多似塵沙。
10 And concerning kings, he will triumph, and sovereign rulers will be his laughingstock, and he will laugh over every fortress, and he will transport a rampart and seize it.
他們嘲笑列王，譏諷諸侯，嗤笑任何堡壘只堆一堆土，即可攻下；
11 Then his spirit will be altered, and he will cross over and fall. Such is his strength from his god.
然後鼓起勇氣向前猛進，以自己的力量為神。
12 Have you not existed from the beginning, Lord my God, my holy one, and so we shall not die? Lord, you have stationed him for judgment, and you have established that his strength will be swept away.
吾主，你自古不就是我的天主，我的聖者﹖你決不會死亡! 上主，你派他們來是為審判；磐石，你立定他們是為懲罰。
13 Your eyes are pure, you do not behold evil, and you cannot look towards iniquity. Why do you look upon the agents of iniquity, and remain silent, while the impious is devouring one who is more just than himself?
你的眼睛這樣純潔，以致見不得邪惡，見不得折磨! 你為什麼垂顧背信的人﹖當惡人吞噬較他們更義的人，你又為什麼緘默﹖
14 And you will make men like the fish of the sea and like the creeping things that have no ruler.
你竟把人當作海裏的魚，當作沒有主宰的爬蟲!
15 He lifted up everything with his hook. He drew them in with his dragnet, and gathered them into his netting. Over this, he will rejoice and exult.
他們把所有的一切用鉤子鉤上來，用網拉上來，用罟收集起來，為此歡欣踴躍，
16 For this reason, he will offer victims to his dragnet, and he will sacrifice to his netting. For through them, his portion has been made fat, and his meals elite.
向網祭獻，向罟焚香，因為給他們帶來了富裕的財物，豐美的飲食。
17 Because of this, therefore, he expands his dragnet and will not be lenient in continually putting to death the peoples.
難道因此他們就應時常倒空自己的羅，無情地屠殺萬民﹖
