Habacuc 1
1 La charge qu'Habacuc le Prophète a vue.
[I am] Habakkuk, a prophet. This is the [message that Yahweh] gave to me in a vision.
2 Ô Eternel! jusques à quand crierai-je, sans que tu m'écoutes? [jusques à quand] crierai-je vers toi, on me traite avec violence, sans que tu me délivres?
[I said, ] “Yahweh, how long must I continue to call [to you] for help before you respond? I cry out to you [for help], saying that [people are acting] violently [everywhere], but you do not rescue us!
3 Pourquoi me fais-tu voir l'outrage, et vois-tu la perversité? [Pourquoi] y a-t-il du dégât et de la violence devant moi, et [des gens qui] excitent des procès et des querelles?
(Must I/I do not want to) continue seeing people doing what is unjust [RHQ]. Why do you not punish people who are doing what is wrong [RHQ]? I see people destroying things and [acting] violently. There is fighting and quarreling [everywhere].
4 Parce que la Loi est sans force, et que la justice ne se fait jamais, à cause de cela le méchant environne le juste, et à cause de cela le jugement sort tout corrompu.
No one obeys laws [PRS], and judges [PRS] never do what is fair/just. Wicked people always defeat righteous people [in the courts], with the result that matters are never decided fairly/justly.”
5 Regardez entre les nations, et voyez, et soyez étonnés et tout interdits, car je m'en vais faire en votre temps une œuvre que vous ne croirez point quand on vous la racontera.
[Yahweh replied to me, ] “[I know that what you say is true, but] look around at [what is happening in] the other nations; [if you look, ] you will be amazed, because I am doing something during this time that you would not believe [would happen], even if someone told you about it.
6 Car voici, je m'en vais susciter les Caldéens, qui sont une nation cruelle et impétueuse, marchant sur l'étendue de la terre, pour posséder des demeures qui ne lui appartiennent pas.
The soldiers of Babylonia are fierce/cruel and swift. And now I am causing them [to become very powerful]; they will march across the world and conquer [many] other countries.
7 Elle est affreuse et terrible, son gouvernement et son autorité viendra d'elle même.
They are people whom [others] fear very much [DOU], and they do whatever they want to, paying no attention to the laws of other countries.
8 Ses chevaux sont plus légers que les léopards, et ils ont la vue plus aiguë que les loups du soir; et ses gens de cheval se répandront çà et là, même ses gens de cheval viendront de loin; ils voleront comme un aigle qui se hâte pour repaître.
The horses [that pull their chariots] go faster than leopards, and they are fiercer than wolves are in the evening. The horses on which the soldiers ride gallop swiftly; the soldiers riding them come from distant places. They are like [SIM] eagles that swoop down to [snatch and] kill small animals.
9 Elle viendra toute pour faire le dégât; ce qu'ils engloutiront de leurs regards [sera porté] vers l'Orient, et elle amassera les prisonniers comme du sable.
As they ride along, [they are] determined to act violently. They advance like [SIM] a wind from the desert, gathering prisoners that are as [numerous as grains of] sand.
10 Elle se moque des Rois, et se joue des Princes; elle se rit de toutes les forteresses, en faisant des terrasses, elle les prendra.
They make fun of kings and princes [of other countries], and they ridicule all the cities that have high walls around them. They pile dirt [outside those walls] [in order to climb up] and capture those cities.
11 Alors elle renforcera son courage, et passera outre, mais elle se rendra coupable, [en disant que] cette puissance qu'elle a [est] de son Dieu.
They rush past like the wind, and then they go [to attack other cities]. But they are very guilty, because [they think that] their own power is their god.”
12 N'es-tu pas de toute éternité, ô Eternel! mon Dieu! mon Saint? Nous ne mourrons point; ô Eternel! Tu l'as mis pour [faire] jugement; et toi, [mon] Rocher, tu l'as fondé pour punir.
[Then I said, ] “Yahweh, you have certainly [RHQ] always/forever been God. You are my Holy One; you will not die. So [why] have you appointed those men [from Babylonia] to judge and get rid of [us]? You are like [MET] a huge rock [under which we are protected/safe], so why have you sent them to punish us?
13 Tu as les yeux trop purs pour voir le mal, et tu ne saurais prendre plaisir à regarder le mal, qu'on [fait à autrui.] Pourquoi regarderais-tu les perfides, et te tairais-tu quand le méchant dévore son prochain qui est plus juste que lui?
You [SYN] are pure, and you cannot endure looking at what is evil, [so why] are you ignoring men who are treacherous? Why do you do nothing [to punish] those wicked men [from Babylonia] who destroy people who are more righteous than they [are]?
14 Or tu as fait les hommes comme les poissons de la mer, et comme le reptile qui n'a point de dominateur.
[Do you consider that] we are like fish in the sea, or like other creatures in the sea, that have no ruler?
15 Il a tout enlevé avec l'hameçon; il l'a amassé avec son filet, et l'a assemblé dans son rets; c'est pourquoi il se réjouira, et s'égayera.
[The soldiers of Babylonia think that we are fish] [RHQ] for them to pull out of the sea with hooks or to catch in their nets, while they rejoice and celebrate.
16 A cause de cela il sacrifiera à son filet, et fera des encensements à son rets, parce qu'il aura eu par leur moyen une grasse portion, et que sa viande est une chose mœlleuse.
If they catch us, they will [worship] their weapons [MET] with which they captured us, and offer sacrifices to them and burn incense in front of them! [They will say] ‘Those weapons have enabled us to become rich and be able to eat expensive food.’
17 Videra-t-il à cause de cela son filet? et ne cessera-t-il jamais de faire le carnage des nations?
[Will you allow] them to continue [to conquer people] [MET] forever? [Will you allow] them to destroy people of other nations without their being merciful [to anyone]?”
