Habakkuk 2
1 On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He speaks against me, and what I reply to my reproof.
Super custodiam meam stabo, et figam gradum super munitionem: et contemplabor ut videam quid dicatur mihi, et quid respondeam ad arguentem me.
2 And YHWH answers me and says: “Write a vision, and explain on the tablets, That he may run who is reading it.
Et respondit mihi Dominus, et dixit: Scribe visum, et explana eum super tabulas: ut percurrat qui legerit eum.
3 For yet the vision [is] for a season, And it breathes for the end, and does not lie, If it lingers, wait for it, For surely it comes, it is not late.
Quia adhuc visus procul, et apparebit in finem, et non mentietur. si moram fecerit expecta illum: quia veniens veniet, et non tardabit.
4 Behold, a presumptuous one! His soul is not upright within him, And the righteous lives by his faith.
Ecce qui incredulus est, non erit recta anima eius in semetipso: iustus autem in fide sua vivet.
5 And also, because the wine [is] treacherous, A man is haughty, and does not remain at home, Who has enlarged his soul as Sheol, And is as death that is not satisfied, And gathers to itself all the nations, And assembles to itself all the peoples, (Sheol h7585)
Et quomodo vinum potantem decipit: sic erit vir superbus, et non decorabitur: qui dilatavit quasi infernus animam suam: et ipse quasi mors, et non adimpletur: et congregavit ad se omnes gentes, et coacervavit ad se omnes populos. (Sheol h7585)
6 Are these not—all of them—an allegory taken up against him, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Until when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
Numquid non omnes isti super eum parabolam sument, et loquelam aenigmatum eius: et dicetur: Vae ei, qui multiplicat non sua? usquequo aggravat contra se densum lutum?
7 Do your usurers not instantly rise up, And those shaking you awake, And you have been a spoil to them?
Numquid non repente consurgent qui mordeant te: et suscitabuntur lacerantes te, et eris in rapinam eis?
8 Because you have spoiled many nations, All the remnant of the peoples spoil you, Because of man’s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.
Quia tu spoliasti gentes multas, spoliabunt te omnes, qui reliqui fuerint de populis propter sanguinem hominis et iniquitatem terrae civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
9 Woe [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of evil,
Vae qui congregat avaritiam malam domui suae, ut sit in excelso nidus eius, et liberari se putat de manu mali.
10 You have counseled a shameful thing to your house, To cut off many peoples, and your soul [is] sinful.
Cogitasti confusionem domui tuae, concidisti populos multos, et peccavit anima tua.
11 For a stone cries out from the wall, And a beam from the wood answers it.
Quia lapis de pariete clamabit: et lignum, quod inter iuncturas aedificiorum est, respondebit.
12 Woe [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
Vae qui aedificat civitatem in sanguinibus, et praeparat urbem in iniquitate.
13 Behold, is it not from YHWH of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
Numquid non haec sunt a Domino exercituum? Laborabunt enim populi in multo igne: et gentes in vacuum, et deficient.
14 For the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of YHWH, As the waters cover over a sea.
Quia replebitur terra, ut cognoscant gloriam Domini, quasi aquae operientes mare.
15 Woe [to] him who is giving drink to his neighbor, Pouring out your bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.
Vae qui potum dat amico suo mittens fel suum, et inebrians ut aspiciat nuditatem eius.
16 You have been filled—shame without honor, Drink also, and be uncircumcised, Turn around to you does the cup of the right hand of YHWH, And shameful spewing [is] on your glory.
Repletus es ignominia pro gloria: bibe tu quoque, et consopire: circumdabit te calix dexterae Domini, et vomitus ignominiae super gloriam tuam.
17 For violence [done to] Lebanon covers you, And spoil of beasts frightens them, Because of man’s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.
Quia iniquitas Libani operiet te, et vastitas animalium deterrebit eos de sanguinibus hominis, et iniquitate terrae, et civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
18 What profit has a carved image given That its former has hewn it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That the former has trusted on his own formation—to make mute idols?
Quid prodest sculptile, quia sculpsit illud fictor suus, conflatile, et imaginem falsam? quia speravit in figmento fictor eius ut faceret simulacra muta.
19 Woe [to] him who is saying to wood, Awake, To a mute stone, Stir up, It [is] a teacher! Behold, it is overlaid—gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst.
Vae qui dicit ligno: Expergiscere: Surge, lapidi tacenti: numquid ipse docere poterit? Ecce iste coopertus est auro, et argento: et omnis spiritus non est in visceribus eius.
20 And YHWH [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!”
Dominus autem in templo sancto suo: sileat a facie eius omnis terra.
