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先知首次疑问

哈巴谷先知所得的默示。

耶和华啊!

我恳求,你不垂听,

要到几时呢?

我向你呼叫“有狂暴的事”,你却不拯救。

你为甚么使我看见恶行?

有奸恶的事,你为甚么见而不理?

毁灭和强暴在我面前,

纷争和相斗常常发生。

因此律法不能生效(“律法不能生效”原文作“律法松懈”),

公理无法彰显。

因为恶人把义人包围,所以公理颠倒。

耶和华的回答

你们当看列国,要定睛观看,就会大大惊奇,

因为在你们的日子,我要作一件事,

即使有人说了出来,你们也不会相信。

就是要兴起迦勒底人,那残忍凶暴的民;

他们遍行全地,占领别人的家园。

他们恐怖可怕,自以为义,趾高气扬。

他们的马比豹更快,比晚上的豺狼更猛。

他们的骑兵奔驰,自远而来;

他们如鹰飞翔,迅速吞噬。

他们定着脸面向前,齐来行暴,

掳获战俘多如尘沙。

10 他们戏弄君王,以掌权的为笑柄;

他们嗤笑一切城堡,筑垒攻取;

11 然后扫荡如风吹过。

他们是有罪的,因他们以自己的势力为神。

先知第二次的疑问

12 耶和华我的 神,我的圣者啊!

你不是自古就有的吗?我们不会死的。

耶和华啊!你派他们行审判。

盘石啊!你立他们施惩罚。

13 你的眼目纯洁,不看邪恶,

不能坐视奸恶;

为甚么见行诡诈的人而不理?

恶人吞灭比自己公义的人,你为甚么缄默呢?

14 你竟使人像海里的鱼,

像无人管辖的爬行的动物。

15 迦勒底人既用钩把他们钓起来,用网拖走,

用鱼网收聚在一处,就欢喜快乐,

16 向自己的网献祭,对鱼网烧香,

因他们藉此收获丰富,饮食充裕。

17 这样,他们倒空自己的网,

毫不留情地继续杀戮列国。

Habakkuk Calls for Help

The [a](A)oracle which Habakkuk the prophet beheld.

(B)How long, O [b]Yahweh, will I call for help,
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do (C)not save.
Why do You make me (D)see wickedness
And cause me to look on trouble?
Indeed, (E)devastation and violence are before me;
(F)And there is strife, and contention is lifted up.
Therefore the (G)law is [c]ignored,
And justice never comes forth.
For the wicked (H)surround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes forth (I)perverted.

Yahweh Raises the Dreaded Chaldeans

(J)See among the nations! And look!
Be also astonished! (K)Be astounded!
Because I am doing (L)something in your days—
You would not believe if it was recounted to you.
For behold, I am (M)raising up the Chaldeans,
That bitter and hasty nation
Who walks on the breadth of the land
To (N)possess dwelling places which are not theirs.
They are dreaded and (O)feared;
Their (P)justice and exaltation come forth from themselves.
Their (Q)horses are swifter than leopards
And [d]sharper than (R)wolves in the evening.
Their [e]horsemen come galloping;
Their horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an (S)eagle swooping down to devour.
All of them come for violence.
[f]Their horde of (T)faces moves forward.
And they gather captives like sand.
10 And they (U)mock at kings,
And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
They (V)laugh at every fortress
And (W)heap up dirt and capture it.
11 Then they will sweep through like the (X)wind and pass on.
But they will be held (Y)guilty,
They whose (Z)power is their god.”

Yahweh Has Placed Them to Judge

12 Are You not from (AA)everlasting,
O Yahweh, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die.
You, O Yahweh, have (AB)placed them to judge;
And You, O (AC)Rock, have established them to reprove.
13 Your eyes are too (AD)pure to see evil,
And You cannot look on trouble.
Why do You (AE)look
On those who deal (AF)treacherously?
Why are You (AG)silent when the wicked (AH)swallow up
Those more righteous than they?
14 And You have made men like the fish of the sea,
Like creeping things without a ruler over them.
15 The Chaldeans (AI)bring all of them up with a hook,
(AJ)Drag them away with their net,
And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they are glad and rejoice.
16 Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net
And [g]burn incense to their fishing net
Because through (AK)these things their portion is rich
And their food is fat.
17 Will they therefore empty their (AL)net
And continually (AM)kill nations without sparing?

Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:1 Or burden
  2. Habakkuk 1:2 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15
  3. Habakkuk 1:4 Or ineffective; lit numbed
  4. Habakkuk 1:8 Or more eager to attack
  5. Habakkuk 1:8 Or steeds paw the ground
  6. Habakkuk 1:9 Or The eagerness of their faces
  7. Habakkuk 1:16 Or sacrifice

The prophecy(A) that Habakkuk the prophet received.

Habakkuk’s Complaint

How long,(B) Lord, must I call for help,
    but you do not listen?(C)
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
    but you do not save?(D)
Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate(E) wrongdoing?(F)
Destruction and violence(G) are before me;
    there is strife,(H) and conflict abounds.
Therefore the law(I) is paralyzed,
    and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
    so that justice(J) is perverted.(K)

The Lord’s Answer

“Look at the nations and watch—
    and be utterly amazed.(L)
For I am going to do something in your days
    that you would not believe,
    even if you were told.(M)
I am raising up the Babylonians,[a](N)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth(O)
    to seize dwellings not their own.(P)
They are a feared and dreaded people;(Q)
    they are a law to themselves
    and promote their own honor.
Their horses are swifter(R) than leopards,
    fiercer than wolves(S) at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
    their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
    they all come intent on violence.
Their hordes[b] advance like a desert wind
    and gather prisoners(T) like sand.
10 They mock kings
    and scoff at rulers.(U)
They laugh at all fortified cities;
    by building earthen ramps(V) they capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind(W) and go on—
    guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”(X)

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Lord, are you not from everlasting?(Y)
    My God, my Holy One,(Z) you[c] will never die.(AA)
You, Lord, have appointed(AB) them to execute judgment;
    you, my Rock,(AC) have ordained them to punish.
13 Your eyes are too pure(AD) to look on evil;
    you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.(AE)
Why then do you tolerate(AF) the treacherous?(AG)
    Why are you silent while the wicked
    swallow up those more righteous than themselves?(AH)
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked(AI) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,(AJ)
    he catches them in his net,(AK)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and burns incense(AL) to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
    and enjoys the choicest food.
17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
    destroying nations without mercy?(AM)

Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans
  2. Habakkuk 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  3. Habakkuk 1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we