Habakkuk 1

1 The burden that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

[the] oracle which to see Habakkuk [the] prophet

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?

till where? LORD to cry and not to hear: hear to cry out to(wards) you violence and not to save

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.

to/for what? to see: see me evil: wickedness and trouble to look and violence and violence to/for before me and to be strife and strife to lift: raise

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.

upon so be numb instruction and not to come out: come to/for perpetuity justice for wicked to surround [obj] [the] righteous upon so to come out: come justice to twist

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.

to see: see in/on/with nation and to look and to astounded to astounded for work to work in/on/with day your not be faithful for to recount

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.

for look! I to arise: raise [obj] [the] Chaldea [the] nation [the] bitter and [the] to hasten [the] to go: walk to/for broad land: country/planet to/for to possess: take tabernacle not to/for him

7 It is dreadful and terrible. From themselves, judgment and their burden will issue.

terrible and to fear he/she/it from him justice his and elevation his to come out: come

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.

and to lighten from leopard horse his and be sharp from wolf evening and to leap horseman his and horseman his from distant to come (in): come to fly like/as eagle to hasten to/for to eat

9 They will all approach towards the prey; their face is like a burning wind. And they will gather captives together like sand.

all his to/for violence to come (in): come horde face their east [to] and to gather like/as sand captivity

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.

and he/she/it in/on/with king to mock and to rule laughing to/for him he/she/it to/for all fortification to laugh and to heap dust and to capture her

11 Then his spirit will be altered, and he will cross over and fall. Such is his strength from his god.

then to pass spirit: breath and to pass and be guilty this strength his to/for god his

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.

not you(m. s.) from front: old LORD God my holy my not to die LORD to/for justice: judgement to set: appoint him and rock to/for to rebuke to found him

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?

pureness eye from to see: see bad: evil and to look to(wards) trouble not be able to/for what? to look to act treacherously be quiet in/on/with to swallow up wicked righteous from him

14 And you will make men like the fish of the sea and like the creeping things that have no ruler.

and to make man like/as fish [the] sea like/as creeping not to rule in/on/with him

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.

all his in/on/with hook to ascend: establish to drag/chew/saw him in/on/with net his and to gather him in/on/with net his upon so to rejoice and to rejoice

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.

upon so to sacrifice to/for net his and to offer: offer to/for net his for in/on/with them rich portion his and food his fat

17 Because of this, therefore, he expands his dragnet and will not be lenient in continually putting to death the peoples.

upon so to empty net his and continually to/for to kill nation not to spare