Habakkuk 1

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

The message seen by the prophet Habakkuk.

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

How long, Lord, have I cried out and without you hearing me! I cry to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not help.

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 look upon wickedness and behold trouble? Destruction and violence are before my eyes, and fighting and quarrelling.

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 weak, and justice is never rendered; for the wicked surround 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, look well, be shocked and amazed. For I am about to do a work in your days; you will not believe it when it is told.

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 I am about to raise up the Chaldeans, a nation grim and quick of action who sweep over the whole 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 bring fear and terror. They write their own rules.

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, quicker than wolves hunting at dusk. From afar they come swooping down, like an eagle attacking its prey.

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

They all come to do violence, a horde like a desert wind, they gather up captives 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

At kings they scoff, and princes are sport to them. They laugh at every fortress, and heap up earth to take it.

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

Then they sweep on like the wind, Their 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 eternal, Lord, my holy one, who does not die? Lord you have appointed them to execute judgment, my rock, you have established them to punish.

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 at evil, you cannot condone iniquity. So why do you regard the treacherous in silence, while the wicked swallows the upright?

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

You have made people like the fish of the sea, like reptiles 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 wicked sweep them all into their nets, and gather them into their drag-nets, and rejoice and celebrate.

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 to their net, and burn offerings to their drag-net; for by their nets are their portions generous, and their food is rich.

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

Will they empty their nets continually, slaughter nations unpityingly?