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
Contemporary English Version
1 I am Habakkuk the prophet. And this is the message[a] that the Lord gave me.
Habakkuk Complains to the Lord
2 Our Lord, how long must I beg
for your help
before you listen?
How long before you save us
from all this violence?
3 Why do you make me watch
such terrible injustice?
Why do you allow violence,
lawlessness, crime, and cruelty
to spread everywhere?
4 Laws cannot be enforced;
justice is always the loser;
criminals crowd out honest people
and twist the laws around.
The Lord Answers Habakkuk
5 (A) Look and be amazed
at what's happening
among the nations!
Even if you were told,
you would never believe
what's taking place now.
6 (B) I am sending the Babylonians.
They are fierce and cruel—
marching across the land,
conquering cities and towns.
7 How fearsome and frightening.
Their only laws and rules
are the ones they make up.
8 Their cavalry troops are faster
than leopards,
more ferocious than wolves
hunting at sunset,
and swifter than hungry eagles
suddenly swooping down.
9 They are eager to destroy,[b]
and they gather captives
like handfuls of sand.
10 They make fun of rulers
and laugh at fortresses,
while building dirt mounds
so they can capture cities.[c]
11 Then suddenly they disappear
like a gust of wind—
those sinful people who worship
their own strength.
Habakkuk Complains Again
12 Holy Lord God, mighty rock,[d]
you are eternal,
and we[e] are safe from death.
You are using those Babylonians
to judge and punish others.[f]
13 But you can't stand sin or wrong.
So don't sit by in silence
while they gobble up people
who are better than they are.
14 The people you put on this earth
are like fish or reptiles
without a leader.
15 Then an enemy comes along
and takes them captive
with hooks and nets.
It makes him so happy
16 that he offers sacrifices
to his fishing nets,
because they make him rich
and provide choice foods.
17 Will he keep hauling in his nets
and destroying nations
without showing mercy?
Footnotes
- 1.1 message: Or “vision.”
- 1.9 eager to destroy: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 1.10 dirt mounds … cities: Attacking armies often build dirt mounds against city walls to make it easier for them to climb the wall and capture the city.
- 1.12 mighty rock: The Hebrew text has “rock,” which is sometimes used in poetry to compare the Lord to a mountain where his people can run for protection from their enemies.
- 1.12 we: Hebrew; one ancient Jewish tradition “you.”
- 1.12 You … others: Or “You will judge and punish those Babylonians.”
Habakkuk 1
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
1 The burden or oracle (the thing to be lifted up) which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help and You will not hear? Or cry out to You of violence and You will not save?
3 Why do You show me iniquity and wrong, and Yourself look upon or cause me to see perverseness and trouble? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention arises.
4 Therefore the law is slackened and justice and a righteous sentence never go forth, for the [hostility of the] wicked surrounds the [uncompromisingly] righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
5 Look around [you, Habakkuk, replied the Lord] among the nations and see! And be astonished! Astounded! For I am putting into effect a work in your days [such] that you would not believe it if it were told you.(A)
6 For behold, I am rousing up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation who march through the breadth of the earth to take possession of dwelling places that do not belong to them.(B)
7 [The Chaldeans] are terrible and dreadful; their justice and dignity proceed [only] from themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards and are fiercer than the evening wolves, and their horsemen spread themselves and press on proudly; yes, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that hastens to devour.
9 They all come for violence; their faces turn eagerly forward, and they gather prisoners together like sand.
10 They scoff at kings, and rulers are a derision to them; they ridicule every stronghold, for they heap up dust [for earth mounds] and take it.
11 Then they sweep by like a wind and pass on, and they load themselves with guilt, [as do all men] whose own power is their god.
12 Are not You from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed [the Chaldean] to execute [Your] judgment, and You, O Rock, have established him for chastisement and correction.(C)
13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and can not look [inactively] upon injustice. Why then do You look upon the plunderer? Why are you silent when the wicked one destroys him who is more righteous than [the Chaldean oppressor] is?
14 Why do You make men like the fish of the sea, like reptiles and creeping things that have no ruler [and are defenseless against their foes]?
15 [The Chaldean] brings all of them up with his hook; he catches and drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is in high spirits.
16 Therefore he sacrifices [offerings] to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because from them he lives luxuriously and his food is plentiful and rich.
17 Shall he therefore continue to empty his net and mercilessly go on slaying the nations forever?
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