ハバクク書 1
1 預言者ハバククが示を蒙りし預言の重負
The burden that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 ヱホバよ我呼はるに汝の民に聽たまはざること何時までぞや 我なんぢにむかひて強暴を訴ふれども汝は助けたまはざるなり
How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not heed? Shall I shout to you while suffering violence, and you will not save?
3 汝なにとて我に害惡を見せたまふや 何とて艱難を瞻望居たまふや 奪掠および強暴わが前に行はる且爭論あり鬪諍おこる
Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.
4 是によりて律法弛み公義正しく行はれず惡き者義しき者を圍むが故に公義曲りて行はる
Because of this, the law has been torn apart, and judgment does not persevere to its conclusion. For the impious prevail against the just. Because of this, a perverse judgment is issued.
5 汝ら國々の民の中を望み觀駭け 汝らの日に我一の事を爲ん 之を告る者あるとも汝ら信ぜざらん
Gaze among the nations, and see. Admire, and be astounded. For a work has been done in your days, which no one will believe when it is told.
6 視よ我カルデヤカ人を興さんとす 是すなはち猛くまた荒き國民にして地を縦横に行めぐり 己の有ならざる住處を奪ふ者なり
For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift people, marching across the width of the earth, to possess tabernacles not their own.
7 是は懼るべく又驚くべし 其是非威光は己より出づ
It is dreadful and terrible. From themselves, judgment and their burden will issue.
8 その馬は豹よりも迅く夜求食する豺狼よりも疾し 其騎兵は跑まはる 即ちその騎兵は遠き處より來る 其飛ことは物を食はんと急ぐ鷲のごとし
Their horses are more nimble than leopards and swifter than wolves in the evening; their horsemen will spread out. And then their horsemen will approach from far away; they will fly like the eagle, hurrying to devour.
9 是は全く強暴のために來り 其面を前にむけて頻に進むその俘虜を寄集むることは砂のごとし
They will all approach towards the prey; their face is like a burning wind. And they will gather captives together like sand.
10 是は王等を侮り君等を笑ひ諸の城々を笑ひ土を積あげてこれを取ん
And concerning kings, he will triumph, and sovereign rulers will be his laughingstock, and he will laugh over every fortress, and he will transport a rampart and seize it.
11 斯て風のごとくに行めぐり進みわたりて罪を獲ん 是は己の力を神とす
Then his spirit will be altered, and he will cross over and fall. Such is his strength from his god.
12 ヱホバわが神わが聖者よ 汝は永遠より在すに非ずや 我らは死なじ ヱホバよ汝は是を審判のために設けたまへり 磐よ汝は是を懲戒のために立たまへり
Have you not existed from the beginning, Lord my God, my holy one, and so we shall not die? Lord, you have stationed him for judgment, and you have established that his strength will be swept away.
13 汝は目清くして肯て惡を觀給はざる者 肯て不義を視たまはざる者なるに何ゆゑ邪曲の者を觀すて置たまふや 惡き者を己にまさりて義しき者を呑噬ふに何ゆゑ汝黙し居たまふや
Your eyes are pure, you do not behold evil, and you cannot look towards iniquity. Why do you look upon the agents of iniquity, and remain silent, while the impious is devouring one who is more just than himself?
14 汝は人をして海の魚のごとくならしめ君あらぬ昆蟲のごとくならしめたまふ
And you will make men like the fish of the sea and like the creeping things that have no ruler.
15 彼鈎をもて之を盡く釣あげ網をもて之を寄せ集め引網をもて之を捕ふるなり 是に因て彼歡び樂しむ
He lifted up everything with his hook. He drew them in with his dragnet, and gathered them into his netting. Over this, he will rejoice and exult.
16 是故に彼その網に犠牲を獻げその引網に香を焚く 其は之がためにその分肥まさりその食饒になりたればなり
For this reason, he will offer victims to his dragnet, and he will sacrifice to his netting. For through them, his portion has been made fat, and his meals elite.
17 然ど彼はその網を傾けつつなほたえず國々の人を惜みなく殺すことをするならんか
Because of this, therefore, he expands his dragnet and will not be lenient in continually putting to death the peoples.
