חבקוק 3

1 תפלה לחבקוק הנביא--על שגינות

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, put to Shigionoth.

2 יהוה שמעתי שמעך יראתי--יהוה פעלך בקרב שנים חייהו בקרב שנים תודיע ברגז רחם תזכור

O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.

3 אלוה מתימן יבוא וקדוש מהר פארן סלה כסה שמים הודו ותהלתו מלאה הארץ

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. (Selah) The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise.

4 ונגה כאור תהיה קרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עזה

He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.

5 לפניו ילך דבר ויצא רשף לרגליו

Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.

6 עמד וימדד ארץ ראה ויתר גוים ויתפצצו הררי עד שחו גבעות עולם הליכות עולם לו

From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.

7 תחת און ראיתי אהלי כושן ירגזון יריעות ארץ מדין

The curtains of Cushan were troubled, and the tents of Midian were shaking.

8 הבנהרים חרה יהוה--אם בנהרים אפך אם בים עברתך כי תרכב על סוסיך מרכבתיך ישועה

Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?

9 עריה תעור קשתך שבעות מטות אמר סלה נהרות תבקע ארץ

Your bow was quite uncovered. (Selah) By you the earth was cut through with rivers.

10 ראוך יחילו הרים זרם מים עבר נתן תהום קולו רום ידיהו נשא

The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

11 שמש ירח עמד זבלה לאור חציך יהלכו לנגה ברק חניתך

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

12 בזעם תצעד ארץ באף תדוש גוים

You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.

13 יצאת לישע עמך לישע את משיחך מחצת ראש מבית רשע ערות יסוד עד צואר סלה

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. (Selah)

14 נקבת במטיו ראש פרזו יסערו להפיצני עליצתם כמו לאכל עני במסתר

You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

15 דרכת בים סוסיך חמר מים רבים

The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.

16 שמעתי ותרגז בטני לקול צללו שפתי--יבוא רקב בעצמי ותחתי ארגז אשר אנוח ליום צרה לעלות לעם יגודנו

Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

17 כי תאנה לא תפרח ואין יבול בגפנים--כחש מעשה זית ושדמות לא עשה אכל גזר ממכלה צאן ואין בקר ברפתים

For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

18 ואני ביהוה אעלוזה אגילה באלהי ישעי

Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

19 יהוה אדני חילי וישם רגלי כאילות ועל במותי ידרכני למנצח בנגינותי

The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like roes' feet, guiding me on my high places. For the chief music-maker on corded instruments.