Habacuc 1
1 La revelación que vio el profeta Habacuc.
The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 Yahvé, ¿hasta cuándo clamaré y no escucharás? Te grito: “¡Violencia!”, ¿y no vas a salvar?
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
3 ¿Por qué me muestras la iniquidad y miras la perversidad? Porque la destrucción y la violencia están ante mí. Hay contienda, y se levanta la disputa.
Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
4 Por eso la ley está paralizada, y la justicia nunca prevalece; porque los impíos rodean a los justos; por eso la justicia sale pervertida.
For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
5 “Mirad entre las naciones, observad y asombraos maravillosamente; porque estoy obrando una obra en vuestros días que no creeréis aunque os la cuenten.
See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.
6 Porque, he aquí, estoy levantando a los caldeos, esa nación amarga y apresurada que marcha a lo ancho de la tierra, para poseer moradas que no son suyas.
For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
7 Son temibles y terribles. Su juicio y su dignidad proceden de ellos mismos.
They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
8 Sus caballos son más veloces que los leopardos y más feroces que los lobos de la tarde. Sus jinetes avanzan con orgullo. Sí, sus jinetes vienen de lejos. Vuelan como un águila que se apresura a devorar.
And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
9 Todos ellos vienen por la violencia. Sus hordas van de frente. Recogen prisioneros como la arena.
They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
10 Sí, se burlan de los reyes, y los príncipes son una burla para ellos. Se ríen de toda fortaleza, pues construyen una rampa de tierra y la toman.
He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
11 Luego pasan como el viento y siguen adelante. Son ciertamente culpables, cuya fuerza es su dios”.
Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
12 ¿No eres tú desde la eternidad, Yahvé mi Dios, mi Santo? No moriremos. Yahvé, tú los has establecido para juzgar. Tú, Roca, lo has establecido para castigar.
Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
13 Tú, que tienes ojos muy puros para ver el mal, y no puedes mirar la perversidad, ¿por qué toleras a los que proceden con traición y callas cuando el impío se traga al hombre que es más justo que él,
Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
14 y haces a los hombres como los peces del mar, como los reptiles que no tienen jefe?
He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
15 A todos los coge con el anzuelo. Los atrapa en su red y los recoge en su red de arrastre. Por eso se regocija y se alegra.
He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
16 Por eso sacrifica a su red y quema incienso a su red de arrastre, porque por ellas su vida es lujosa y su comida es buena.
For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
17 ¿Va, pues, a vaciar continuamente su red y a matar a las naciones sin piedad?
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
