Habakkuk 1

¹The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

¹先知哈巴谷所得的默示。

²How long, O LORD, will I call for help, And You will not hear? I cry out to You, 'Violence!' Yet You do not save.

²他說：耶和華啊！我呼求你，你不應允，要到幾時呢？我因強暴哀求你，你還不拯救。

³Why do You make me see iniquity, And cause [me] to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; Strife exists and contention arises.

³你為何使我看見罪孽？你為何看著奸惡而不理呢？毀滅和強暴在我面前，又起了爭端和相鬥的事。

⁴Therefore the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore justice comes out perverted.

⁴因此律法放鬆，公理也不顯明，惡人圍困義人，所以公理顯然顛倒。

⁵'Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because [I am] doing something in your days-- You would not believe if you were told.

⁵耶和華說：你們要向列國中觀看，大大驚奇；因為在你們的時候，我行一件事，雖有人告訴你們，你們總是不信。

⁶'For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.

⁶我必興起迦勒底人，就是那殘忍暴躁之民，通行遍地，佔據那不屬自己的住處。

⁷'They are dreaded and feared; Their justice and authority originate with themselves.

⁷他威武可畏，判斷和勢力都任意發出。

⁸'Their horses are swifter than leopards And keener than wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come galloping, Their horsemen come from afar; They fly like an eagle swooping [down] to devour.

⁸他的馬比豹更快，比晚上的豺狼更猛。馬兵踴躍爭先，都從遠方而來；他們飛跑如鷹抓食，

⁹'All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces [moves] forward. They collect captives like sand.

⁹都為行強暴而來，定住臉面向前，將擄掠的人聚集，多如塵沙。

¹⁰'They mock at kings And rulers are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every fortress And heap up rubble to capture it.

¹⁰他們譏誚君王，笑話首領，嗤笑一切保障，築壘攻取。

¹¹'Then they will sweep through [like] the wind and pass on. But they will be held guilty, They whose strength is their god.'

¹¹他以自己的勢力為神，像風猛然掃過，顯為有罪。

¹²Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. You, O LORD, have appointed them to judge; And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.

¹²耶和華─我的神，我的聖者啊，你不是從亙古而有麼？我們必不致死。耶和華啊，你派定他為要刑罰人；磐石啊，你設立他為要懲治人。

¹³[Your] eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You can not look on wickedness [with favor]. Why do You look with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they?

¹³你眼目清潔，不看邪僻，不看奸惡；行詭詐的，你為何看著不理呢？惡人吞滅比自己公義的，你為何靜默不語呢？

¹⁴[Why] have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

¹⁴你為何使人如海中的魚，又如沒有管轄的爬物呢？

¹⁵[The Chaldeans] bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

¹⁵他用鉤鉤住，用網捕獲，用拉網聚集他們；因此，他歡喜快樂，

¹⁶Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net And burn incense to their fishing net; Because through these things their catch is large, And their food is plentiful.

¹⁶就向網獻祭，向網燒香，因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。

¹⁷Will they therefore empty their net And continually slay nations without sparing?

¹⁷他豈可屢次倒空網羅，將列國的人時常殺戮，毫不顧惜呢？