Habakkuk 1

1 The oracle which he saw Habakkuk the prophet.

The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

2 Until when? O Yahweh have I cried for help and not you will hear I cry out to you violence and not you save.

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!

3 Why? do you make see me wickedness and mischief do you look at? and devastation and violence [are] to before me and it has been strife and contention it arises.

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

4 There-fore it grows numb [the] law and not it comes forth to perpetuity justice for [the] wicked [is] surrounding the righteous [person] there-fore it comes forth justice perverted.

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.

5 See among the nations and look and be astounded be astonished for a deed [I am] about to do in days your [which] not you will believe if it will be recounted.

Behold all of you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which all of you will not believe, though it be told you.

6 For here I [am] about to raise up the Chaldeans the nation bitter and impetuous which goes to [the] expanses of [the] earth to take possession of dwellings [which] not [belong] to it.

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not their's.

7 [is] terrifying And awesome it from itself justice its and dignity its it comes forth.

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8 And they are swift more than leopards horses its and they are keen more than wolves of [the] evening and they paw [the] ground warhorses its and horsemen its from a distance they come they fly like an eagle making haste to devour.

Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hastes to eat.

9 All of it for violence it comes [the] totality of faces their [is] east-ward and it gathered like sand captive[s].

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10 And it kings it derides and rulers [are] laughter to it it at every fortress it laughs and it heaped up earth and it captured it.

And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11 Then it swept on a wind and it passed on and he is guilty [the one] who strength his [becomes] god his.

Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12 ¿ Not [are] you from antiquity O Yahweh God my holy [one] my not we will die O Yahweh to judgment you have appointed it and O rock to reprove you have established it.

Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.

13 [you are too] pure of Eyes for seeing evil and to look to mischief not you are able why? do you look at treacherous [people] are you silent? when swallows up a wicked [person] a [person] righteous more than him.

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: wherefore look you upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?

14 And you have made humankind like [the] fish of the sea like creeping thing[s] [which] not a ruler [is] over it.

And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15 All of it with a fish hook he brings up he drags away it in net his and he gathers it in fishing net his there-fore he rejoices and he may be glad.

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16 There-fore he sacrifices to net his so he may make smoke to fishing net his for by them [is] fat portion his and food his [is] fat.

Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food abundant.

17 ¿ There-fore will he empty net his and continually to kill nations not will he spare?

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?