Habakkuk 1

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

The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,

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

“Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear? I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you will 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 and look upon wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up.

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 weakened, and justice does not last for any time. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out.”

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 examine them; be amazed and astonished! For I am surely about to do something in your days that you will not believe when it is reported to 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 look! I am about to raise up the Chaldeans—that fierce and impetuous nation— they are marching throughout the breadth of the land to seize homes that were not their own.

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

They are terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from 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 leopards, quicker than the evening wolves. So their horses stamp, and their horsemen come from a great distance—they fly like an eagle hurrying 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 all come for violence; their multitudes go like the desert wind, and they gather 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

So they mock kings, and rulers are only a mockery for them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they heap up earth and take them.

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

Then the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might 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 ancient times, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh has ordained them for judgment, and you, Rock, 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 gaze upon evil, and you are not able to look on wrongdoing with favor; why then have you looked favorably on those who betray? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they are?

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

You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a 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

He brings all of them up with a fishhook; he drags men away in his fishnet; he gathers them together in his dragnet; so he rejoices and he is 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 he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury, and his food is the richest kind.

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

Will he therefore keep emptying his net, and will he continually slaughter the nations without mercy?”