Habakkuk 1
1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
先知哈巴谷所得的默示。
2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.
他說：耶和華啊！我呼求你， 你不應允，要到幾時呢？ 我因強暴哀求你，你還不拯救。
3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
你為何使我看見罪孽？ 你為何看着奸惡而不理呢？ 毀滅和強暴在我面前， 又起了爭端和相鬥的事。
4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted.
因此律法放鬆， 公理也不顯明； 惡人圍困義人， 所以公理顯然顛倒。
5 Behold ye among the nations, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
耶和華說：你們要向列國中觀看， 大大驚奇； 因為在你們的時候，我行一件事， 雖有人告訴你們，你們總是不信。
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation; which march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
我必興起迦勒底人， 就是那殘忍暴躁之民，通行遍地， 佔據那不屬自己的住處。
7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
他威武可畏， 判斷和勢力都任意發出。
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen spread themselves: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
他的馬比豹更快， 比晚上的豺狼更猛。 馬兵踴躍爭先， 都從遠方而來； 他們飛跑如鷹抓食，
9 They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.
都為行強暴而來， 定住臉面向前， 將擄掠的人聚集，多如塵沙。
10 Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him: he derideth every strong hold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
他們譏誚君王，笑話首領， 嗤笑一切保障，築壘攻取。
11 Then shall he sweep by [as] a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty: [even] he whose might is his god.
他以自己的勢力為神， 像風猛然掃過，顯為有罪。
12 Art not thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.
耶和華－我的上帝，我的聖者啊， 你不是從亙古而有嗎？ 我們必不致死。 耶和華啊，你派定他為要刑罰人； 磐石啊，你設立他為要懲治人。
13 Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;
你眼目清潔， 不看邪僻，不看奸惡； 行詭詐的，你為何看着不理呢？ 惡人吞滅比自己公義的， 你為何靜默不語呢？
14 and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
你為何使人如海中的魚， 又如沒有管轄的爬物呢？
15 He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.
他用鉤鉤住，用網捕獲， 用拉網聚集他們； 因此，他歡喜快樂，
16 Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his meat plenteous.
就向網獻祭，向網燒香， 因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。
17 Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
他豈可屢次倒空網羅， 將列國的人時常殺戮，毫不顧惜呢？
