Habakkuk 1
1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
哈巴谷先知在神視中所得的神諭。
2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out to thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!
上主，我呼救而你不予垂聽，要到何時﹖向你呼喊「殘暴」，而你仍不施救﹖
3 Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for devastation and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise strife and contention.
為什麼你仗我見到邪惡，人受壓迫，而你竟坐視﹖在我面前，只有壓害和殘暴，爭吵不休，辯論迭起。
4 Therefore the law is slackened, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth encompass the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
為此法律鬆馳，正義不彰，惡人包圍了義人，因而產生歪曲的審判。
5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe though it be told [you].
你們應觀察列邦，且應注意視，你們必要詑異驚奇，因在你們的日子內，我要做一件事，縱然有人述說，你們也不相信。
6 For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places [that are] not theirs.
看，我要激起加色丁人──那殘暴凶猛的民族，向廣大的地區進發，侵佔別人的居所。
7 They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.
這民族獨斷獨行，目中無人，實令人恐怖。
8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat.
他們的馬捷於虎豹，猛於夜狼；他們的馬隊由遠方飛奔而來，像撲食的老鷹；
9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
大事摧殘，而面目焦燥，有如烈風；聚集的俘虜，多似塵沙。
10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
他們嘲笑列王，譏諷諸侯，嗤笑任何堡壘只堆一堆土，即可攻下；
11 Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, [imputing] this his power to his god.
然後鼓起勇氣向前猛進，以自己的力量為神。
12 [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
吾主，你自古不就是我的天主，我的聖者﹖你決不會死亡! 上主，你派他們來是為審判；磐石，你立定他們是為懲罰。
13 [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?
你的眼睛這樣純潔，以致見不得邪惡，見不得折磨! 你為什麼垂顧背信的人﹖當惡人吞噬較他們更義的人，你又為什麼緘默﹖
14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals [that have] no ruler over them?
你竟把人當作海裏的魚，當作沒有主宰的爬蟲!
15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
他們把所有的一切用鉤子鉤上來，用網拉上來，用罟收集起來，為此歡欣踴躍，
16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their food plenteous.
向網祭獻，向罟焚香，因為給他們帶來了富裕的財物，豐美的飲食。
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
難道因此他們就應時常倒空自己的羅，無情地屠殺萬民﹖
