哈巴谷書 2
1 我要立在我的守望台上，置身於堡壘上窺探，看他對我說什麼，看他怎樣答覆我的怨訴。
I will stand firm during my watch, and fix my position over the fortification. And I will observe carefully, to see what might be said to me and what I might respond to my opponent.
2 上主回答我說：「你寫出這神視，清楚地刻在版上，使人能順利誦讀。
And the Lord responded to me and said: Write the vision and explain it on tablets, so that he who reads it may run through it.
3 因為這神視有一定的時期，最後必要實現，決無欺詐；若遲廷了，你應等待；它必再來，決不誤期。
For as yet the vision is far off, and it will appear in the end, and it will not lie. If it expresses any delay, wait for it. For it is arriving and it will arrive, and it will not be hindered.
4 看，心術不正的，必然消逝；人必因他們的信賴而生活。
Behold, he who is unbelieving, his soul will not be right within himself; but he who is just shall live in his faith.
And in the manner that wine deceives the heavy drinker, so will the arrogant man be deceived, and he will not be honored. He has enlarged his life like hellfire, and himself like death, and he is never fulfilled. And he will gather to himself all nations, and he will amass for himself all peoples. (Sheol h7585)
6 那時，這些人民豈不都吟諷刺詩，以隱語嘲弄他說：禍哉，那只顧聚歛他人財物的人，堆積抵押於自己家中，要到何時﹖
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and an enigmatic utterance about him? And it will be said, “Woe to him who increases what is not his own.” How long, then, will he lay down dense clay against himself?
7 你的債豈不要忽然起來，追債者豈不要醒起，你必成為他們的掠物!
Shall they not suddenly rise up, who would bite you, and be stirred up, who would tear you, so that you will be a prey for them?
8 因為你搶掠過許多民族，各民族的遺也必要搶掠你；因為你流了人的血，使地域、城市和其中所有的居民遭受了摧殘。
Because you have despoiled many peoples, all those who are left of the people shall despoil you, because of the blood of men, and the iniquity of the earth, of the city and all who dwell therein.
9 禍哉! 那取重利，而給自家遭禍，並在高處設置高巢，想避免災禍的人!
Woe to him who gathers together an evil greed for his house, so that his nest may be exalted, and thinking that he might free himself from the hand of evil.
10 你消滅許多民族，正是為自家遭來羞恥，危害自己的性命，
You have devised confusion for your house, you have cut to pieces many peoples, and your soul has sinned.
11 因為石頭必由牆中呼喊，棟零樑必由屋脊應和。
For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wood that is between the joints of the building will respond.
12 禍哉，那以血債建造城市，以邪惡建立城鎮的人!
Woe to him who builds a town with blood and prepares a city by iniquity.
13 這豈不要出於萬軍上主的意願：列國只為火而勤勞，萬民辛苦只是一場空﹖
Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.
14 因為大地要充滿對上主光榮的知識，就如水充滿海洋。
For the earth shall be filled, that they might know the glory of the Lord, like the waters spreading over the sea.
15 禍哉，那以攙有毒物的給自己近人喝，使他酣醉，圖見他裸體的人!
Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.
16 你必飽嘗恥辱，而毫無光榮。如今應該你喝，顯露你未割損之物。上主右手中的杯已輪到了你，恥辱要遮蓋你的光榮。
You are filled with disgrace in place of glory. So then, drink and fall fast asleep, for the cup of the right hand of the Lord will surround you, and a disgraceful vomit will cover your glory.
17 你加於黎巴嫩的摧殘，必臨於你；你施於走獸的虐待，必使你恐懼，因為 你流了人的血，使地域、城市和其中所有居民遭受了摧殘。
For the iniquity of Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of animals which will deter them from the blood of men, and the iniquity of the earth and the city, and of all who dwell therein.
18 彫像有何用處﹖竟使工匠彫刻它﹖鑄像，即撒謊之師，又有何用，竟值得製造它的人依賴它﹖他不要為自己製造了啞像﹖
Of what benefit is the graven image? For its maker has formed it, a molten and imaginary deception. For its maker has hoped in a figment of his own creation, so as to make a dumb likeness.
19 禍哉，那對木頭說：「醒來，」對石頭說：「起來」的人! 這樣的東西豈能施救﹖看，它只是塗了一層金銀，內卻毫無氣息。
Woe to him who says to wood, “Awaken,” to the silent stone, “Arise.” Is it able to teach? Behold, it has been entirely covered with gold and silver; and there is no spirit at all in its inner workings.
20 但上主卻住在自己的聖殿內，整個大地在衪面前都應肅靜。
But the Lord is in his holy temple. May all the earth be silent before his face.
