Habakkuk 2
1 [After I said that, I said to myself, ] “I will climb up into my watchtower, and stand there at my guard post. I will wait there to find out what Yahweh will say, what he will reply to what I have complained about.”
| اکنون از برج دیدبانی خود بالا می‌روم و بر حصار ایستاده، منتظر می‌مانم تا ببینم خداوند به شکایت من چه جواب می‌دهد. |
2 Then Yahweh replied to me, “Write plainly on tablets [what I am revealing to you in] this vision, [and then read it to a messenger] in order that he can run with it [to tell it to] other people.
| آنگاه خداوند به من فرمود: «آنچه را به تو نشان می‌دهم با خطی درشت و خوانا بر تخته سنگی بنویس تا هر کس بتواند با یک نگاه آن را بخواند. |
3 In this vision [I will be talking about things that will happen] in the future. Now is not the time when those things will happen, but they certainly will happen, and when they occur, they will occur quickly, and they will not be delayed. Now you [want those things to happen immediately, but] they are not happening. But wait patiently for them [to happen]!
| اگرچه آنچه به تو نشان می‌دهم در حال حاضر اتفاق نمی‌افتد، ولی مطمئن باش که سرانجام در وقت معین به وقوع خواهد پیوست. هر چند تا وقوع آن، مدت زیادی طول بکشد، ولی منتظر آن باش، زیرا وقوع آن حتمی و بدون تأخیر خواهد بود. |
4 Think about the proud [people of Babylonia]! They are certainly not doing what is righteous. But people who are righteous will live because they faithfully [do what I want them to do].
| «به کسانی که به خود می‌بالند نگاه کن! این بدکاران نابود خواهند شد، اما عادل به ایمان خواهد زیست. |
5 If people [trust in their wealth], they will deceive themselves, and proud people are never able to rest. [It is as though] the greedy people [of Babylonia open their mouths] as wide as the place where dead people are, and they never have enough, like [the place where] dead people go never has enough dead people [PRS]. The [armies of Babylonia] conquer many nations for themselves, and capture all their people. (Sheol h7585)
| به درستی که ثروت، خیانتکار است و این بابِلی‌های متکبر را به دام خواهد انداخت. آنها با حرص و ولع، مانند مرگ، قومها را یکی پس از دیگری به کام خود می‌کشند و اسیر می‌سازند و هرگز سیر نمی‌شوند. (Sheol h7585) |
6 But [soon] all those [whom they have captured] will ridicule [the soldiers from Babylonia]! They will make fun of them, saying, ‘Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things [from other countries]! You got many things by forcing people to give them to you. [But you certainly will not keep those things] for a long time [RHQ]!’
| اما زمانی خواهد آمد که همهٔ این اسیرشدگان آنها را تمسخر کرده، خواهند گفت:”ای کسانی که مال و ثروت مردم را به زور از چنگشان درآورده‌اید، اینک به سزای ستمگری‌ها و غارتگری‌های خود می‌رسید.“» |
7 Suddenly those whom you (oppressed/treated cruelly) will cause you to tremble, and they will take away all the things that you have stolen from them.
| ای کسانی که بر دیگران ظلم کرده‌اید، طلبکارانتان ناگهان برخاسته، بر سرتان خواهند ریخت و شما را که درمانده شده‌اید غارت خواهند کرد. |
8 You stole things from the people of many nations. You murdered [MTY] people of many people-groups, and you destroyed their land and their cities. So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you.
| بسیاری از قومها را غارت کردید و حال، بقیهٔ قومها شما را غارت خواهند کرد، زیرا خون مردم را ریختید و سرزمینها و شهرها را با مردمش نابود کردید. |
9 Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who build big houses with money that you got by forcing others to give it to you. You are proud and you think that your houses will be safe because you have built them in places where you can easily defend them.
| وای بر شما که از راههای نادرست ثروت اندوخته‌اید تا زندگی امن و راحتی داشته باشید. |
10 But because you have destroyed others, you have caused your family [MTY] to be shamed/disgraced, and you yourselves will be killed.
| وای بر شما که قومها را نابود کرده‌اید، زیرا ننگ و نابودی برای خود به بار آورده‌اید. |
11 [It is as though] the stones in the walls [of your houses] cry out to accuse you, and [it is as though] the beams [in your ceilings] also say the same things.
| حتی سنگهای دیوار و تیرهای سقف خانه‌تان بر ضد شما فریاد برمی‌آورند! |
12 Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who kill people [MTY] in order to build cities, cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
| وای بر شما که شهرها را با پولی که از راه آدمکشی و غارت به دست آورده‌اید، می‌سازید؛ |
13 But the Commander of the armies of angels has [RHQ] declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that [will be destroyed by] fire; they will have worked hard uselessly.
| زیرا دارایی خدانشناسان دود شده، به هوا می‌رود و دسترنج آنها نابود می‌گردد. خداوند لشکرهای آسمان چنین مقرر کرده است. |
14 But [in contrast], like [SIM] the oceans are filled with water, the earth will be filled with [people who] know that Yahweh is very great.
| همان‌گونه که آبها دریا را پر می‌سازند، زمانی خواهد رسید که درک و شناخت عظمت خداوند، جهان را پر خواهد ساخت. |
15 Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who cause people who live in nearby countries to become drunk. You force them to drink a lot of wine from wineskins [until they are drunk and then they walk around] naked, in order that you can see that.
| وای بر شما که همسایگان خود را در زیر ضربه‌هایتان مانند آدمهای مست، بی‌حال و گیج می‌کنید و در آن حال از رسوایی آنها لذت می‌برید. |
16 But you are the ones who [soon] will be disgraced instead of being honored. [It will be as though you are forced to] drink [a lot of wine] in order that you will also stagger [around, drunk]. You will drink the wine [that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you], and he will cause you to be disgraced instead of being greatly respected [any more].
| به‌زودی شکوه و جلال خود شما به ننگ و رسوایی تبدیل خواهد شد و شما پیالهٔ داوری خداوند را خواهید نوشید و گیج شده، به زمین خواهید افتاد. |
17 You did violent [PRS] things to [the people in] Lebanon, and you killed the wild animals [there], but you will be punished severely for doing that. You have killed [MTY] many people and you have destroyed their lands and their cities.
| جنگلهای لبنان را از بین بردید، اکنون خود شما نابود خواهید شد! حیوانات آنجا را به وحشت انداخته کشتید، پس حال، برای تمام آدمکشی‌ها و ظلم و ستمی که در سرزمینها و شهرها کردید، وحشتزده کشته خواهید شد. |
18 [You people of Babylonia need to know that your] idols are completely [RHQ] useless, because it is people who made them. Statues that have been carved or made in a mold deceive you. Those who trust in idols are trusting in things that they themselves created, things that cannot speak!
| از پرستش بتهایی که به دست انسان ساخته شده‌اند چه فایده‌ای بردید؟ آیا آنها توانستند چیزی به شما یاد دهند؟ چقدر نادان بودید که به ساختهٔ دست خودتان توکل کردید! |
19 Terrible things will happen to you who say to lifeless idols that are made of wood, ‘Wake up!’ Idols certainly cannot [RHQ] tell you what you should do; they [look nice/beautiful because] they are covered with silver and gold, but they are not alive.
| وای بر آنانی که از بتهای چوبین و بی‌جان خود می‌خواهند که به پا خیزند و ایشان را نجات دهند! و از سنگهای بی‌زبان انتظار دارند که سخن بگویند و ایشان را راهنمایی کنند! بیرون بتها با طلا و نقره پوشانیده شده است، ولی در درونشان نَفَسی نیست. |
20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple; everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence.”
| خداوند در معبد مقدّس خویش است؛ پس تمام جهان در حضور او خاموش باشد. |
