哈巴谷书 1
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
先知首次疑问
1 哈巴谷先知所得的默示。
2 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。
3 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。
4 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
5 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。
6 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。
7 他们恐怖可怕,自以为义,趾高气扬。
8 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。
9 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 1
International Children’s Bible
Learning How to Trust God
1 This is the message that was given to Habakkuk the prophet.
Habakkuk Complains
2 Lord, I continue to ask for help.
How long will you ignore me?
I cry out to you about violence,
but you do not save us!
3 Why do you let me see wrong things?
Why do you put up with evil?
People are destroying things and hurting others while I am looking.
They are arguing and fighting.
4 People are not forced to obey the teachings.
No one receives a fair trial.
Evil people gain while good people lose.
The judges no longer make fair decisions.
The Lord Answers
5 “You and your people, look at the nations!
Watch them and be amazed.
I will do something in your lifetime that will amaze you.
You won’t believe it even when you are told about it.
6 I will use the Babylonian people to punish the evil people.
The Babylonians are cruel and powerful fighters.
They march across the earth.
They take lands that don’t belong to them.
7 The Babylonians frighten other people.
They do what they want to do.
They are good only to themselves.
8 Their horses are faster than leopards
and more cruel than wolves at sunset.
Their horse soldiers attack quickly.
They come from places that are far away.
They attack quickly, like an eagle swooping down for food.
9 They all come to fight.
Their armies march quickly like a whirlwind in the desert.
Their prisoners are as many as the grains of sand.
10 The Babylonian soldiers laugh at kings.
They make fun of rulers.
They laugh at all the strong, walled cities.
They build dirt roads up to the top of the walls.
They capture the cities.
11 Then they leave like the wind and move on.
They are guilty of worshiping their own strength.”
Habakkuk Complains Again
12 Lord, you are the Lord who lives forever.
You are my God, my holy God.
You will not let those who trust you die.
Lord, you have chosen the Babylonians to punish people.
Our Rock, you created them to punish the people.
13 Your eyes are too good to look at evil.
You cannot stand to see people do wrong.
So how can you put up with those evil people?
How can you be quiet when wicked people defeat people who are better than they are?
14 You treat people like fish in the sea.
You treat them like sea animals without a leader.
15 The enemy catches all of them with hooks.
He catches them in his net.
He drags them in.
He is glad that he has caught them.
16 The enemy offers sacrifices to his net.
He burns incense to worship it.
This is because his net lets him live like a rich man.
His net lets him enjoy the best food.
17 Will he keep on taking riches with his net?
Will he go on destroying people without showing mercy?
Habakkuk 1
New International Version
1 The prophecy(A) that Habakkuk the prophet received.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
2 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)
3 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.
4 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
5 “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)
6 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)
7 They are a feared and dreaded people;(Q)
they are a law to themselves
and promote their own honor.
8 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;
9 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
- Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans
- Habakkuk 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Habakkuk 1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we
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