Habakkuk 1:2-4
New English Translation
2 How long, Lord, must I cry for help?
But you do not listen!
I call out to you, “Violence!”
But you do not deliver!
3 Why do you force me to witness injustice?[a]
Why do you put up with wrongdoing?[b]
Destruction and violence confront[c] me;
conflict is present and one must endure strife.[d]
4 For this reason the law lacks power,[e]
and justice is never carried out.[f]
Indeed,[g] the wicked intimidate[h] the innocent.[i]
For this reason justice is perverted.[j]
Notas al pie
- Habakkuk 1:3 tn Heb “Why do you make me see injustice?”
- Habakkuk 1:3 tn Heb “Why do you look at wrongdoing?” sn Habakkuk complains that God tolerates social injustice and fails to intervene on behalf of the oppressed (put up with wrongdoing).
- Habakkuk 1:3 tn Heb “are before.”
- Habakkuk 1:3 tn Heb “and there is conflict and strife he lifts up.” The present translation takes the verb יִשָּׂא (yisaʾ) in the sense of “carry, bear,” and understands the subject to be indefinite (“one”).
- Habakkuk 1:4 tn Heb “the law is numb,” i.e., like a hand that has “fallen asleep” (see Ps 77:2). Cf. NAB “is benumbed”; NIV “is paralyzed.”
- Habakkuk 1:4 tn Heb “never goes out.”
- Habakkuk 1:4 tn Or “for.”
- Habakkuk 1:4 tn Heb “surround” (so NASB, NRSV).
- Habakkuk 1:4 tn Or “righteous” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
- Habakkuk 1:4 tn Heb “comes out crooked.”
Habakkuk 1:2-4
Legacy Standard Bible
2 (A)How long, O [a]Yahweh, will I call for help,
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do (B)not save.
3 Why do You make me (C)see wickedness
And cause me to look on trouble?
Indeed, (D)devastation and violence are before me;
(E)And there is strife, and contention is lifted up.
4 Therefore the (F)law is [b]ignored,
And justice never comes forth.
For the wicked (G)surround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes forth (H)perverted.
Notas al pie
- Habakkuk 1:2 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15
- Habakkuk 1:4 Or ineffective; lit numbed
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