Habakkuk 1

1 The burden that Habakkuk the prophet has seen:

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

2 Until when, O YHWH, have I cried, And You do not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” And You do 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 do You show me iniquity, And cause [me] to behold perversity? And spoiling and violence [are] before me, And there is strife, and contention lifts [itself] up,

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 Therefore law ceases, And judgment does not go forth forever, For the wicked is surrounding the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goes forth.

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 “Look on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, You do not believe though it is declared.

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 am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy dwelling places not his 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 He [is] terrible and fearful, His judgment and his excellence go forth from him.

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

8 His horses have been swifter than leopards, And sharper than evening wolves, And his horsemen have increased, Even his horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hastening to consume.

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 All for violence—he comes in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And he gathers a captivity as the sand.

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

10 And he scoffs at kings, And princes [are] a laughter to him, He laughs at every fortification, And he heaps up dust, and captures 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 the spirit has passed on, Indeed, he transgresses, And [ascribes] this—his power—to his god.”

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

12 Are You not of old, O YHWH, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O YHWH, You have appointed him for judgment, And, O Rock, You have founded him for reproof.

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 Purer of eyes than to behold evil, You are not able to look on perverseness, Why do You behold the treacherous? You keep silent when the wicked Swallow the more righteous than he,

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 make man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing [with] none ruling over him.

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

15 He has brought up each of them with a hook, He catches it in his net, and gathers it in his dragnet, Therefore he delights and rejoices.

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 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, And makes incense to his dragnet, For by them [is] his portion fertile, and his food fat.

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 Does he therefore empty his net, And continually not spare to slay nations?

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