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Habackuk 2
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln)
Habackuk 2
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln)
Gud svarar Habackuk
2 Jag ska klättra upp i mitt vakttorn för att vänta och se vad Gud har att säga och vilket svar han ger på mitt klagomål.
2 Herren sa till mig: Skriv mitt svar klart och tydligt på en tavla och låt en budbärare sprida det åt alla håll.
3 Men det jag planerar kommer inte att hända på en gång. Sakta men säkert närmar sig tiden då synen ska bli verklighet. Misströsta inte om det skulle dröja, för allt detta kommer att ske. Ha bara tålamod! Det ska inte gå en enda dag över tiden!
4 Lägg märke till det här: Ogudaktiga människor litar på sig själva, som babylonierna gör. De misslyckas, men den rättfärdige förlitar sig på mig och får leva!
5 Dessa högfärdiga babylonier blir förvirrade av allt sitt vindrickande. I sitt övermod har de samlat en mängd nationer under sig, men liksom döden och dödsriket får de aldrig nog.
6 Den dag kommer när deras fångar ska håna dem och säga: Rövare! Äntligen är rättvisans stund inne! Nu ska ni få igen för allt krigsbyte ni samlade på hög och för allt ert förtryck och all er grymhet!
7 Plötsligt ska era fordringsägare vända sig mot er i vrede och ta allt vad ni har, medan ni står darrande och hjälplösa.
8 Ni har ruinerat många folk, men nu ska de ruinera er. Mördare! Ni har förstört både stad och land i er laglöshet.
9 Det blir synd om er som gör er rika genom bedrägeri och sedan tror att ni kan leva i säkerhet.
10 Genom de mord ni begått har ni dragit skam över er och förfelat era liv.
11 Ja, väggarna i era hus ska anklaga er, och bjälkarna i taket ska stämma in i ropen.
12 Det blir synd om er som bygger upp städer med pengar ni fått genom mord och rån.
13 Har inte Herren befallt att det som gudlösa nationer har byggt upp ska bli till aska? De arbetar så flitigt, men allt är förgäves!
14 Den tid ska komma när jorden ska vara lika full av kunskap om Herrens härlighet som havsdjupen är fulla av vatten.
15 Det blir synd om er som först slår era grannländer så att de raglar som druckna och sedan utnyttjar dem i deras nakenhet och skam.
16 Men snart ska er egen härlighet bytas ut mot skam och vanära. Nu är det er tur att dricka er druckna av Guds dom, ända tills ni raglar och faller!
17 Ni skövlade Libanons skogar, men nu ska ni själva huggas ner. Ni jagade skogens djur för nöjes skull, men nu ska ni själva drabbas av förskräckelse på grund av allt ert dödande och all er grymhet i både stad och land.
18 Vad vann ni på att tillbe dessa handgjorda avgudabilder? Vilken lögn det är att de skulle kunna ge någon hjälp! Vilka dårar ni var, som litade på sådant som ni själva hade gjort.
19 Det är sorgligt att man över huvud taget kan komma på tanken att be livlösa trägudar om räddning! Stackars dem som tror att en sten kan komma med goda råd! Hur skulle avgudar kunna föra Guds talan? De är förgyllda med silver och guld, men de har inget liv!
20 Men Herren är i sitt heliga tempel. Låt hela jorden vara stilla inför honom.
Habakkuk 2
New International Version
Habakkuk 2
New International Version
2 I will stand at my watch(A)
and station myself on the ramparts;(B)
I will look to see what he will say(C) to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.[a](D)
The Lord’s Answer
2 Then the Lord replied:
“Write(E) down the revelation
and make it plain on tablets
so that a herald[b] may run with it.
3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time;(F)
it speaks of the end(G)
and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait(H) for it;
it[c] will certainly come
and will not delay.(I)
4 “See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person(J) will live by his faithfulness[d](K)—
5 indeed, wine(L) betrays him;
he is arrogant(M) and never at rest.
Because he is as greedy as the grave
and like death is never satisfied,(N)
he gathers to himself all the nations
and takes captive(O) all the peoples.
6 “Will not all of them taunt(P) him with ridicule and scorn, saying,
“‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods
and makes himself wealthy by extortion!(Q)
How long must this go on?’
7 Will not your creditors suddenly arise?
Will they not wake up and make you tremble?
Then you will become their prey.(R)
8 Because you have plundered many nations,
the peoples who are left will plunder you.(S)
For you have shed human blood;(T)
you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.(U)
9 “Woe to him who builds(V) his house by unjust gain,(W)
setting his nest(X) on high
to escape the clutches of ruin!
10 You have plotted the ruin(Y) of many peoples,
shaming(Z) your own house and forfeiting your life.
11 The stones(AA) of the wall will cry out,
and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
12 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed(AB)
and establishes a town by injustice!
13 Has not the Lord Almighty determined
that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,(AC)
that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?(AD)
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory(AE) of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.(AF)
15 “Woe to him who gives drink(AG) to his neighbors,
pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,
so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!
16 You will be filled with shame(AH) instead of glory.(AI)
Now it is your turn! Drink(AJ) and let your nakedness be exposed[e]!(AK)
The cup(AL) from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you,
and disgrace will cover your glory.
17 The violence(AM) you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
and your destruction of animals will terrify you.(AN)
For you have shed human blood;(AO)
you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
18 “Of what value(AP) is an idol(AQ) carved by a craftsman?
Or an image(AR) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
he makes idols that cannot speak.(AS)
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’(AT)
Can it give guidance?
It is covered with gold and silver;(AU)
there is no breath in it.”(AV)
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:1 Or and what to answer when I am rebuked
- Habakkuk 2:2 Or so that whoever reads it
- Habakkuk 2:3 Or Though he linger, wait for him; / he
- Habakkuk 2:4 Or faith
- Habakkuk 2:16 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint) and stagger
Habakkuk 2
King James Version
Habakkuk 2
King James Version
2 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20 But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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