Habacuc Propheta 2
1 Super custodiam meam stabo, et figam gradum super munitionem: et contemplabor ut videam quid dicatur mihi, et quid respondeam ad arguentem me.
On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He speaks against me, and what I reply to my reproof.
2 Et respondit mihi Dominus, et dixit: Scribe visum, et explana eum super tabulas: ut percurrat qui legerit eum.
And YHWH answers me and says: “Write a vision, and explain on the tablets, That he may run who is reading it.
3 Quia adhuc visus procul, et apparebit in finem, et non mentietur. Si moram fecerit expecta illum: quia veniens veniet, et non tardabit.
For yet the vision [is] for a season, And it breathes for the end, and does not lie, If it lingers, wait for it, For surely it comes, it is not late.
4 Ecce qui incredulus est, non erit recta anima eius in semetipso: iustus autem in fide sua vivet.
Behold, a presumptuous one! His soul is not upright within him, And the righteous lives by his faith.
5 Et quomodo vinum potantem decipit: sic erit vir superbus, et non decorabitur: qui dilatavit quasi infernus animam suam: et ipse quasi mors, et non adimpletur: et congregabit ad se omnes gentes, et coacervabit ad se omnes populos. (Sheol h7585)
And also, because the wine [is] treacherous, A man is haughty, and does not remain at home, Who has enlarged his soul as Sheol, And is as death that is not satisfied, And gathers to itself all the nations, And assembles to itself all the peoples, (Sheol h7585)
6 Numquid non omnes isti super eum parabolam sument, et loquelam ænigmatum eius? et dicetur: Væ ei, qui multiplicat non sua. Usquequo et aggravat contra se densum lutum?
Are these not—all of them—an allegory taken up against him, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Until when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
7 Numquid non repente consurgent qui mordeant te: et suscitabuntur lacerantes te, et eris in rapinam eis?
Do your usurers not instantly rise up, And those shaking you awake, And you have been a spoil to them?
8 Quia tu spoliasti gentes multas, spoliabunt te omnes, qui reliqui fuerint de populis propter sanguinem hominis et iniquitatem terræ civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
Because you have spoiled many nations, All the remnant of the peoples spoil you, Because of man’s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.
9 Væ qui congregat avaritiam malam domui suæ, ut sit in excelso nidus eius, et liberari se putat de manu mali.
Woe [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of evil,
10 Cogitasti confusionem domui tuæ, concidisti populos multos, et peccavit anima tua.
You have counseled a shameful thing to your house, To cut off many peoples, and your soul [is] sinful.
11 Quia lapis de pariete clamabit: et lignum, quod inter iuncturas ædificiorum est, respondebit.
For a stone cries out from the wall, And a beam from the wood answers it.
12 Væ qui ædificat civitatem in sanguinibus, et præparat urbem in iniquitate.
Woe [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
13 Numquid non hæc sunt a Domino exercituum? Laborabunt enim populi in multo igne: et gentes in vacuum, et deficient.
Behold, is it not from YHWH of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
14 Quia replebitur terra, ut cognoscant gloriam Domini, quasi aquæ operientes mare.
For the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of YHWH, As the waters cover over a sea.
15 Væ qui potum dat amico suo mittens fel suum, et inebrians ut aspiciat nuditatem eius.
Woe [to] him who is giving drink to his neighbor, Pouring out your bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.
16 Repletus es ignominia pro gloria: bibe tu quoque, et consopire: circumdabit te calix dexteræ Domini, et vomitus ignominiæ super gloriam tuam.
You have been filled—shame without honor, Drink also, and be uncircumcised, Turn around to you does the cup of the right hand of YHWH, And shameful spewing [is] on your glory.
17 Quia iniquitas Libani operiet te, et vastitas animalium deterrebit eos de sanguinibus hominum, et iniquitate terræ, et civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
For violence [done to] Lebanon covers you, And spoil of beasts frightens them, Because of man’s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.
18 Quid prodest sculptile, quia sculpsit illud fictor suus, conflatile, et imaginem falsam? quia speravit in figmento fictor eius ut faceret simulacra muta.
What profit has a carved image given That its former has hewn it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That the former has trusted on his own formation—to make mute idols?
19 Væ qui dicit ligno: Expergiscere: Surge, lapidi tacenti: numquid ipse docere poterit? Ecce iste coopertus est auro, et argento: et omnis spiritus non est in visceribus eius.
Woe [to] him who is saying to wood, Awake, To a mute stone, Stir up, It [is] a teacher! Behold, it is overlaid—gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst.
20 Dominus autem in templo sancto suo: sileat a facie eius omnis terra.
And YHWH [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!”
