Habacuc 1
1 La carga que vio Habacuc profeta.
The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
2 ¿Hasta cuándo, o! Jehová, clamaré, y no oirás? ¿daré voces a ti a causa de la violencia, y no salvarás?
“Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear? I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you will not save.
3 ¿Por qué me haces ver iniquidad, y haces que mire molestia, y que saco y violencia esté delante de mí, y haya quien levante pleito y contienda?
Why do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up.
4 Por lo cual la ley es debilitada, y el juicio no sale perpetuo; porque el impío calumnia al justo: a esta causa el juicio sale torcido.
Therefore the law is weakened, and justice does not last for any time. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out.”
5 Mirád en las gentes, y ved, y maravilláos, maravilláos; porque obra será hecha en vuestros días, que cuando se os contare, no la creeréis.
“Look at the nations and examine them; be amazed and astonished! For I am surely about to do something in your days that you will not believe when it is reported to you.
6 Porque he aquí que yo levanto los Caldeos, nación amarga y presurosa, que camina por la anchura de la tierra para poseer las habitaciones ajenas.
For look! I am about to raise up the Chaldeans—that fierce and impetuous nation— they are marching throughout the breadth of the land to seize homes that were not their own.
7 Espantosa y terrible, de ella misma saldrá su derecho y su grandeza.
They are terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from themselves.
8 Y serán sus caballos más ligeros que tigres, y más agudos que lobos de tarde; y sus caballeros se multiplicarán: vendrán de lejos sus caballeros, y volarán como águilas que se apresuran a la comida.
Their horses also are swifter than leopards, quicker than the evening wolves. So their horses stamp, and their horsemen come from a great distance—they fly like an eagle hurrying to eat.
9 Toda ella vendrá a la presa: delante de sus caras viento solano; y ayuntará cautivos como arena.
They all come for violence; their multitudes go like the desert wind, and they gather captives like sand.
10 Y él escarnecerá de los reyes, y de los príncipes hará burla: él se reirá de toda fortaleza, y amontanará polvo, y la tomará.
So they mock kings, and rulers are only a mockery for them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they heap up earth and take them.
11 Entonces él mudará espíritu, y traspasará, y pecará atribuyendo esta su potencia a su dios.
Then the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might is their god.”
12 ¿No eres tú desde el principio, o! Jehová, Dios mío, santo mío? no moriremos, o! Jehová: para juicio le pusiste, y fuerte le fundaste para castigar.
“Are you not from ancient times, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh has ordained them for judgment, and you, Rock, have established them for correction.
13 Limpio de ojos para no ver el mal: ni podrás ver la molestia: ¿por qué ves los menospreciadores, y callas, cuando destruye el impío al más justo que él?
Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil, and you are not able to look on wrongdoing with favor; why then have you looked favorably on those who betray? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they are?
14 ¿Y haces que los hombres sean como los peces de la mar, y como reptiles que no tienen señor?
You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them.
15 Sacará a todos con su anzuelo, apañarlos ha con su aljanaya, y juntarlos ha con su red: por lo cual él se holgará, y hará alegrías.
He brings all of them up with a fishhook; he drags men away in his fishnet; he gathers them together in his dragnet; so he rejoices and he is glad.
16 Por esto sacrificará a su aljanaya, y a su red ofrecerá sahumerios; porque con ellas engordó su porción, y engrasó su comida.
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury, and his food is the richest kind.
17 ¿Vaciará por eso su red, o tendrá piedad de matar naciones continuamente?
Will he therefore keep emptying his net, and will he continually slaughter the nations without mercy?”
