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
How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto Thee of violence, and Thou wilt 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 dost Thou show me iniquity, and beholdest mischief? And why are spoiling and violence before me? so that there is strife, and contention ariseth.
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 right doth never go forth; for the wicked doth beset the righteous; therefore right goeth 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
Look ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for, behold, a work shall be wrought 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 impetuous nation, that 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 terrible and dreadful; their law and their majesty 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 wolves of the desert; and their horsemen spread themselves; yea, their horsemen come from far, they fly as a vulture that hasteth 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; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; 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
And they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision unto them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up earth, 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 their spirit doth pass over and transgress, and they become guilty: even they who impute their might unto 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 not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, Thou hast ordained them for judgment, and Thou, O Rock, 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 that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and that canst not look on mischief, wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously, and holdest Thy peace, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that 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 makest 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
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag; therefore they rejoice and exult.
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 unto their net, and offer unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food 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 empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
