Habakkuk 2
1 I will take my stand on my watch-tower, and station myself on a turret. I will watch to see what the Lord will say to me, what answer he will make to my complaint.
Super custodiam meam stabo, et figam gradum super munitionem: et contemplabor ut videam quid dicatur mihi, et quid respondeam ad arguentem me.
2 Then the Lord answered me and said: Inscribe the vision plainly on tablets, so that even someone running by could read it.
Et respondit mihi Dominus, et dixit: Scribe visum, et explana eum super tabulas: ut percurrat qui legerit eum.
3 Though the vision waits for the time set, it hastens to fulfilment and will not fail; Though it linger long, wait for it. For it surely will come and will not be delayed.
Quia adhuc visus procul, et apparebit in finem, et non mentietur. Si moram fecerit expecta illum: quia veniens veniet, et non tardabit.
4 The strength of the proud fails, but the upright lives by their faithfulness.
Ecce qui incredulus est, non erit recta anima eius in semetipso: iustus autem in fide sua vivet.
5 Wealth is treacherous, the arrogant never have enough. They make their desire as wide as Sheol, are like death, unsatisfied, For they gather to themselves all the nations, bring together to themselves all peoples. (Sheol h7585)
Et quomodo vinum potantem decipit: sic erit vir superbus, et non decorabitur: qui dilatavit quasi infernus animam suam: et ipse quasi mors, et non adimpletur: et congregabit ad se omnes gentes, et coacervabit ad se omnes populos. (Sheol h7585)
6 Shouldn’t everyone mock them? sing a taunt-song against them, and say: Woe to the person who amasses what is not theirs, and loads them self down with goods taken in pledge!
Numquid non omnes isti super eum parabolam sument, et loquelam ænigmatum eius? et dicetur: Væ ei, qui multiplicat non sua. Usquequo et aggravat contra se densum lutum?
7 Won’t your creditors suddenly rise, and those who will overthrow you awake, and you become their prey?
Numquid non repente consurgent qui mordeant te: et suscitabuntur lacerantes te, et eris in rapinam eis?
8 For as you have plundered many peoples, the survivors will prey upon you. You have shed blood and committed violence to the earth, peoples and their cities.
Quia tu spoliasti gentes multas, spoliabunt te omnes, qui reliqui fuerint de populis propter sanguinem hominis et iniquitatem terræ civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
9 Woe to you who seeks unjust gain for your dynasty, who sets your nest on high to be safe from the reach of misfortune!
Væ qui congregat avaritiam malam domui suæ, ut sit in excelso nidus eius, et liberari se putat de manu mali.
10 You have planned only shame for your dynasty. You have destroyed many peoples, and brought guilt upon yourself;
Cogitasti confusionem domui tuæ, concidisti populos multos, et peccavit anima tua.
11 the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber will answer it.
Quia lapis de pariete clamabit: et lignum, quod inter iuncturas ædificiorum est, respondebit.
12 Woe to the person who builds a city by bloodshed, and founds a town by crime
Væ qui ædificat civitatem in sanguinibus, et præparat urbem in iniquitate.
13 while the peoples toil for what fires will consume, and the nations weary themselves for nothing! This the Lord of hosts has said,
Numquid non hæc sunt a Domino exercituum? Laborabunt enim populi in multo igne: et gentes in vacuum, et deficient.
14 and the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the seas are full of water.
Quia replebitur terra, ut cognoscant gloriam Domini, quasi aquæ operientes mare.
15 Woe to him who in fury gives drink to his neighbor to make him drunk, and see him naked.
Væ qui potum dat amico suo mittens fel suum, et inebrians ut aspiciat nuditatem eius.
16 You are filled with shame, not glory; drink yourself and be uncovered. The cup from the Lord’s hand will pass in turn to you, and shame will cover your glory!
Repletus es ignominia pro gloria: bibe tu quoque, et consopire: circumdabit te calix dexteræ Domini, et vomitus ignominiæ super gloriam tuam.
17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, the destruction of animals will terrify you, because you shed people’s blood on the earth, destroyed people and their cities.
Quia iniquitas Libani operiet te, et vastitas animalium deterrebit eos de sanguinibus hominum, et iniquitate terræ, et civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
18 What use is an idol? A human made it, a metal image. It cannot speak, it cannot teach truth, Why does its maker trust it?
Quid prodest sculptile, quia sculpsit illud fictor suus, conflatile, et imaginem falsam? quia speravit in figmento fictor eius ut faceret simulacra muta.
19 Woe to the person who says to a block, awake! to a dumb stone, arise! What can it teach? It may be set with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all within it.
Væ qui dicit ligno: Expergiscere: Surge, lapidi tacenti: numquid ipse docere poterit? Ecce iste coopertus est auro, et argento: et omnis spiritus non est in visceribus eius.
20 The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!
Dominus autem in templo sancto suo: sileat a facie eius omnis terra.
