Habakkuk 1

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

This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:

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

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do 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 do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

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 paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

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

“Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone 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 behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

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

They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.

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 are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

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

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like 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

They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

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

Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their 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

Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have 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

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

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

You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

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

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

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 he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

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

Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?