Habacuque 1
1 A carga que viu o propheta Habacuc.
[I am] Habakkuk, a prophet. This is the [message that Yahweh] gave to me in a vision.
2 Até quando, Senhor, clamarei eu, e tu não me escutarás? até quando gritarei a ti: Violencia! e não salvarás?
[I said, ] “Yahweh, how long must I continue to call [to you] for help before you respond? I cry out to you [for help], saying that [people are acting] violently [everywhere], but you do not rescue us!
3 Por que razão me fazes vêr a iniquidade, e vês a vexação? porque a destruição e a violencia estão diante de mim, havendo tambem quem suscite a contenda e o litigio
(Must I/I do not want to) continue seeing people doing what is unjust [RHQ]. Why do you not punish people who are doing what is wrong [RHQ]? I see people destroying things and [acting] violently. There is fighting and quarreling [everywhere].
4 Por esta causa a lei se afrouxa, e a sentença nunca sae; porque o impio cérca o justo, e sae a sentença torcida.
No one obeys laws [PRS], and judges [PRS] never do what is fair/just. Wicked people always defeat righteous people [in the courts], with the result that matters are never decided fairly/justly.”
5 Vêde entre as nações, e olhae, e maravilhae-vos, e estae maravilhados; porque obro uma obra em vossos dias que não crereis, quando se vos contar.
[Yahweh replied to me, ] “[I know that what you say is true, but] look around at [what is happening in] the other nations; [if you look, ] you will be amazed, because I am doing something during this time that you would not believe [would happen], even if someone told you about it.
6 Porque eis que suscito os chaldeos, nação amarga e apressada, que marcha sobre a largura da terra, para possuir moradas que não são suas.
The soldiers of Babylonia are fierce/cruel and swift. And now I am causing them [to become very powerful]; they will march across the world and conquer [many] other countries.
7 Horrivel e terrivel é; d'ella mesma sairá o seu juizo e a sua grandeza.
They are people whom [others] fear very much [DOU], and they do whatever they want to, paying no attention to the laws of other countries.
8 E os seus cavallos são mais ligeiros do que os leopardos, e mais perspicazes do que os lobos á tarde, e os seus cavalleiros se espalham: os seus cavalleiros virão de longe; voarão como aguias que se apressam á comida.
The horses [that pull their chariots] go faster than leopards, and they are fiercer than wolves are in the evening. The horses on which the soldiers ride gallop swiftly; the soldiers riding them come from distant places. They are like [SIM] eagles that swoop down to [snatch and] kill small animals.
9 Elles todos virão a fim de obrar violencia: os seus rostos buscarão o oriente, e congregará os captivos como areia.
As they ride along, [they are] determined to act violently. They advance like [SIM] a wind from the desert, gathering prisoners that are as [numerous as grains of] sand.
10 E escarnecerão dos reis, e dos principes farão zombaria: elles se rirão de todas as fortalezas, porque amontoarão terra, e as tomarão.
They make fun of kings and princes [of other countries], and they ridicule all the cities that have high walls around them. They pile dirt [outside those walls] [in order to climb up] and capture those cities.
11 Então passará como vento, e traspassará, e se fará culpada, attribuindo este seu poder ao seu deus,
They rush past like the wind, and then they go [to attack other cities]. But they are very guilty, because [they think that] their own power is their god.”
12 Porventura não és tu desde sempre, ó Senhor meu Deus, meu Sancto? nós não morreremos: ó Senhor, para juizo o pozeste, e tu, ó Rocha, o fundaste para castigar.
[Then I said, ] “Yahweh, you have certainly [RHQ] always/forever been God. You are my Holy One; you will not die. So [why] have you appointed those men [from Babylonia] to judge and get rid of [us]? You are like [MET] a huge rock [under which we are protected/safe], so why have you sent them to punish us?
13 Tu és tão puro de olhos, que não podes vêr o mal, e a vexação não podes contemplar: porque olhas para os que obram aleivosamente? porque te calas quando o impio devora aquelle que é mais justo do que elle?
You [SYN] are pure, and you cannot endure looking at what is evil, [so why] are you ignoring men who are treacherous? Why do you do nothing [to punish] those wicked men [from Babylonia] who destroy people who are more righteous than they [are]?
14 E porque farias os homens como os peixes do mar, como os reptis, que não teem quem os governe?
[Do you consider that] we are like fish in the sea, or like other creatures in the sea, that have no ruler?
15 Elle a todos tira com o anzol, apanhal-os-ha com a sua rede, e os ajunta na sua varredoura: por isso elle se alegra e se regozija.
[The soldiers of Babylonia think that we are fish] [RHQ] for them to pull out of the sea with hooks or to catch in their nets, while they rejoice and celebrate.
16 Por isso sacrifica á sua rede, e queima incenso á sua varredoura; porque com ellas se engordou a sua porção, e se engrossou a sua comida.
If they catch us, they will [worship] their weapons [MET] with which they captured us, and offer sacrifices to them and burn incense in front of them! [They will say] ‘Those weapons have enabled us to become rich and be able to eat expensive food.’
17 Porventura por isso vazará a sua rede, e não poupará de matar os povos continuamente?
[Will you allow] them to continue [to conquer people] [MET] forever? [Will you allow] them to destroy people of other nations without their being merciful [to anyone]?”
