חבקוק 1
| המשא אשר חזה חבקוק הנביא | 1 |
The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
| עד אנה יהוה שועתי ולא תשמע אזעק אליך חמס ולא תושיע | 2 |
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
| למה תראני און ועמל תביט ושד וחמס לנגדי ויהי ריב ומדון ישא | 3 |
Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
| על כן תפוג תורה ולא יצא לנצח משפט כי רשע מכתיר את הצדיק על כן יצא משפט מעקל | 4 |
For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
| ראו בגוים והביטו והתמהו תמהו כי פעל פעל בימיכם לא תאמינו כי יספר | 5 |
See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.
| כי הנני מקים את הכשדים הגוי המר והנמהר ההולך למרחבי ארץ לרשת משכנות לא לו | 6 |
For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
| אים ונורא הוא ממנו משפטו ושאתו יצא | 7 |
They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
| וקלו מנמרים סוסיו וחדו מזאבי ערב ופשו פרשיו ופרשיו מרחוק יבאו--יעפו כנשר חש לאכול | 8 |
And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
| כלה לחמס יבוא מגמת פניהם קדימה ויאסף כחול שבי | 9 |
They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
| והוא במלכים יתקלס ורזנים משחק לו הוא לכל מבצר ישחק ויצבר עפר וילכדה | 10 |
He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
| אז חלף רוח ויעבר ואשם זו כחו לאלהו | 11 |
Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
| הלוא אתה מקדם יהוה אלהי קדשי--לא נמות יהוה למשפט שמתו וצור להוכיח יסדתו | 12 |
Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
| טהור עינים מראות רע והביט אל עמל לא תוכל למה תביט בוגדים--תחריש בבלע רשע צדיק ממנו | 13 |
Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
| ותעשה אדם כדגי הים--כרמש לא משל בו | 14 |
He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
| כלה בחכה העלה--יגרהו בחרמו ויאספהו במכמרתו על כן ישמח ויגיל | 15 |
He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
| על כן יזבח לחרמו ויקטר למכמרתו כי בהמה שמן חלקו ומאכלו בראה | 16 |
For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
| העל כן יריק חרמו ותמיד להרג גוים לא יחמול | 17 |
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
