ハバクク書 1
1 預言者ハバククが示を蒙りし預言の重負
The burden, which Habakkuk the Prophet did see.
2 ヱホバよ我呼はるに汝の我に聽たまはざること何時までぞや 我なんぢにむかひて強暴を訴ふれども汝は助けたまはざるなり
O Lord, howe long shall I crye, and thou wilt not heare! euen crye out vnto thee for violence, and thou wilt not helpe!
3 汝なにとて我に害惡を見せたまふや 何とて艱難を瞻望居たまふや 奪掠および強暴わが前に行はる且爭論あり鬪諍おこる
Why doest thou shewe mee iniquitie, and cause me to beholde sorowe? for spoyling, and violence are before me: and there are that rayse vp strife and contention.
4 是によりて律法弛み公義正しく行はれず惡き者義しき者を圍むが故に公義曲りて行はる
Therefore the Lawe is dissolued, and iudgement doeth neuer go forth: for the wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therefore wrong iudgement proceedeth.
5 汝ら國々の民の中を望み觀おどろけ駭け 汝らの日に我一の事を爲ん 之を告る者あるとも汝ら信ぜざらん
Beholde among the heathen, and regarde, and wonder, and maruaile: for I will worke a worke in your dayes: yee will not beleeue it, though it be tolde you.
6 視よ我カルデヤ人を興さんとす 是すなはち猛くまた荒き國人にして地を縦横に行めぐり 己の有ならざる住處を奪ふ者なり
For lo, I raise vp the Caldeans, that bitter and furious nation, which shall goe vpon the breadth of the lande to possesse the dwelling places, that are not theirs.
7 是は懼るべく又驚くべし 其是非威光は己より出づ
They are terrible and fearefull: their iudgement and their dignitie shall proceede of theselues.
8 その馬は豹よりも迅く夜求食する豺狼よりも疾し 其騎兵は跑まはる 即ちその騎兵は遠き處より來る 其飛ことは物を食はんと急ぐ鷲のごとし
Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening: and their horsemen are many: and their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flie as the eagle hasting to meate.
9 是は全く強暴のために來り 其面を前にむけて頻に進むその俘虜を寄集むることは砂のごとし
They come all to spoyle: before their faces shalbe an Eastwinde, and they shall gather the captiuitie, as the sand.
10 是は王等を侮り君等を笑ひ諸の城々を笑ひ土を積あげてこれを取ん
And they shall mocke the Kings, and the princes shalbe a skorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde: for they shall gather dust, and take it.
11 斯て風のごとくに行めぐり進みわたりて罪を獲ん 是は己の力を神とす
Then shall they take a courage, and transgresse and doe wickedly, imputing this their power vnto their god.
12 ヱホバわが神わが聖者よ 汝は永遠より在すに非ずや 我らは死なじ ヱホバよ汝は是を審判のために設けたまへり 磐よ汝は是を懲戒のために立たまへり
Art thou not of olde, O Lord my God, mine holy one? we shall not die: O Lord, thou hast ordeined them for iudgement, and O God, thou hast established them for correction.
13 汝は目清くして肯て惡を觀たまはざる者 肯て不義を視たまはざる者なるに何ゆゑ邪曲の者を觀すて置たまふや 惡き者を己にまさりて義しき者を呑噬ふに何ゆゑ汝默し居たまふや
Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euill: thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherefore doest thou looke vpon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man, that is more righteous then he?
14 汝は人をして海の魚のごとくならしめ君あらぬ昆蟲のごとくならしめたまふ
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them.
15 彼鈎をもて之を盡く釣あげ網をもて之を寄せ集め引網をもて之を捕ふるなり 是に因て彼歡び樂しむ
They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad.
16 是故に彼その網に犠牲を獻げその引網に香を焚く 其は之がためにその分肥まさりその食饒になりたればなり
Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne, because by them their portion is fat and their meat plenteous.
17 然ど彼はその網を傾けつつなほたえず國々の人を惜みなく殺すことをするならんか
Shall they therefore stretch out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations?
