Habacuc 1
1 La carga que vio Habacuc profeta.
The burden that Habacuc the prophet saw.
2 ¿Hasta cuándo, o! Jehová, clamaré, y no oirás? ¿daré voces a ti a causa de la violencia, y no salvarás?
How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?
3 ¿Por qué me haces ver iniquidad, y haces que mire molestia, y que saco y violencia esté delante de mí, y haya quien levante pleito y contienda?
Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more powerful.
4 Por lo cual la ley es debilitada, y el juicio no sale perpetuo; porque el impío calumnia al justo: a esta causa el juicio sale torcido.
Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to the end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.
5 Mirád en las gentes, y ved, y maravilláos, maravilláos; porque obra será hecha en vuestros días, que cuando se os contare, no la creeréis.
Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.
6 Porque he aquí que yo levanto los Caldeos, nación amarga y presurosa, que camina por la anchura de la tierra para poseer las habitaciones ajenas.
For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own.
7 Espantosa y terrible, de ella misma saldrá su derecho y su grandeza.
They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.
8 Y serán sus caballos más ligeros que tigres, y más agudos que lobos de tarde; y sus caballeros se multiplicarán: vendrán de lejos sus caballeros, y volarán como águilas que se apresuran a la comida.
Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat.
9 Toda ella vendrá a la presa: delante de sus caras viento solano; y ayuntará cautivos como arena.
They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.
10 Y él escarnecerá de los reyes, y de los príncipes hará burla: él se reirá de toda fortaleza, y amontanará polvo, y la tomará.
And their prince shall triumph over kings, and princes shall be his laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take it.
11 Entonces él mudará espíritu, y traspasará, y pecará atribuyendo esta su potencia a su dios.
Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god.
12 ¿No eres tú desde el principio, o! Jehová, Dios mío, santo mío? no moriremos, o! Jehová: para juicio le pusiste, y fuerte le fundaste para castigar.
Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.
13 Limpio de ojos para no ver el mal: ni podrás ver la molestia: ¿por qué ves los menospreciadores, y callas, cuando destruye el impío al más justo que él?
Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?
14 ¿Y haces que los hombres sean como los peces de la mar, y como reptiles que no tienen señor?
And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.
15 Sacará a todos con su anzuelo, apañarlos ha con su aljanaya, y juntarlos ha con su red: por lo cual él se holgará, y hará alegrías.
He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.
16 Por esto sacrificará a su aljanaya, y a su red ofrecerá sahumerios; porque con ellas engordó su porción, y engrasó su comida.
Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty.
17 ¿Vaciará por eso su red, o tendrá piedad de matar naciones continuamente?
For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.
