Habakkuk 1
1 The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
先知哈巴谷所得的默示。
2 “Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear? I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you will not save.
他說：耶和華啊！我呼求你， 你不應允，要到幾時呢？ 我因強暴哀求你，你還不拯救。
3 Why do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up.
你為何使我看見罪孽？ 你為何看着奸惡而不理呢？ 毀滅和強暴在我面前， 又起了爭端和相鬥的事。
4 Therefore the law is weakened, and justice does not last for any time. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out.”
因此律法放鬆， 公理也不顯明； 惡人圍困義人， 所以公理顯然顛倒。
5 “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.
耶和華說：你們要向列國中觀看， 大大驚奇； 因為在你們的時候，我行一件事， 雖有人告訴你們，你們總是不信。
6 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.
我必興起迦勒底人， 就是那殘忍暴躁之民，通行遍地， 佔據那不屬自己的住處。
7 They are terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from themselves.
他威武可畏， 判斷和勢力都任意發出。
8 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.
他的馬比豹更快， 比晚上的豺狼更猛。 馬兵踴躍爭先， 都從遠方而來； 他們飛跑如鷹抓食，
9 They all come for violence; their multitudes go like the desert wind, and they gather captives like sand.
都為行強暴而來， 定住臉面向前， 將擄掠的人聚集，多如塵沙。
10 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.
他們譏誚君王，笑話首領， 嗤笑一切保障，築壘攻取。
11 Then the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might is their god.”
他以自己的勢力為神， 像風猛然掃過，顯為有罪。
12 “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.
耶和華－我的上帝，我的聖者啊， 你不是從亙古而有嗎？ 我們必不致死。 耶和華啊，你派定他為要刑罰人； 磐石啊，你設立他為要懲治人。
13 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?
你眼目清潔， 不看邪僻，不看奸惡； 行詭詐的，你為何看着不理呢？ 惡人吞滅比自己公義的， 你為何靜默不語呢？
14 You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them.
你為何使人如海中的魚， 又如沒有管轄的爬物呢？
15 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.
他用鉤鉤住，用網捕獲， 用拉網聚集他們； 因此，他歡喜快樂，
16 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.
就向網獻祭，向網燒香， 因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。
17 Will he therefore keep emptying his net, and will he continually slaughter the nations without mercy?”
他豈可屢次倒空網羅， 將列國的人時常殺戮，毫不顧惜呢？
