Habakkuk 1

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

THE burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

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

O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3 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

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

4 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

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

5 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

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

6 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

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

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

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8 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

Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

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

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10 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

And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

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

Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12 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

Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

13 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

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

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

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15 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

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16 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

Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

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

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?