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 saw.
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 Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save.
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 do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
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 law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.
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
Behold ye scoffers, and look, and wonder marvelously. For I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told 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 up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess 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 fearful and dreadful. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
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 than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from far. They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour.
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 of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives 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
Yea, he scoffs at kings, and rulers are a derision to him. He derides every stronghold, for he heaps up dust, and takes 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 he shall sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty; he whose might is his 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
Are not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Jehovah, thou have ordained him for judgment, and thou, O Rock, have established him 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 who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than 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 makes men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over 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
He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is 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 he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat, and his food plentiful.
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 he therefore empty his net, and not spare to kill the nations continually?
