حَبَقُّوق 2

١ 1 سَأَقِفُ عَلَى مَرْصَدِي وَأَنْتَصِبُ عَلَى الْحِصْنِ، وَأَتَرَقَّبُ لأَرَى مَاذَا يَقُولُ لِي الرَّبُّ، وَبِمَا يُجِيبُ عَنْ شَكْوَايَ.

I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

٢ 2 فَأَجَابَنِي الرَّبُّ: «اكْتُبِ الرُّؤْيَا بِوُضُوحٍ عَلَى الأَلْوَاحِ لِيَسْتَطِيعَ حَتَّى الرَّاكِضُ قِرَاءَتَهَا بِسُهُولَةٍ وَحَمْلَهَا لِلآخَرِينَ.

The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

٣ 3 لأَنَّ الرُّؤْيَا لَا تَتَحَقَّقُ إِلّا فِي مِيعَادِهَا، وَتُسْرِعُ إِلَى نِهَايَتِهَا. إِنَّهَا لَا تَكْذِبُ وَإِنْ تَوَانَتْ فَانْتَظِرْهَا، لأَنَّهَا لابُدَّ أَنْ تَتَحَقَّقَ وَلَنْ تَتَأَخَّرَ طَوِيلاً.»

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

٤ 4 أَمَّا الرِّسَالَةُ فَهِيَ: «إِنَّ ذَا النَّفْسِ الْمُنْتَفِخَةِ غَيْرِ الْمُسْتَقِيمَةِ مَصِيرُهُ الْهَلاكُ، أَمَّا الْبَارُّ فَبِالإِيمَانِ يَحْيَا.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

٥ 5 وَكَمَا أَنَّ الْخَمْرَ غَادِرَةٌ، كَذَلِكَ تَأْخُذُ الْمُغْتَرَّ نَشْوَةُ الانْتِصَارِ فَلا يَسْتَكِينُ، فَإِنَّ جَشَعَهُ فِي سِعَةِ الْهَاوِيَةِ، وهُوَ كَالْمَوْتِ لَا يَشْبَعُ. لِهَذَا يَجْمَعُ لِنَفْسِهِ كُلَّ الأُمَمِ وَيَسْبِي جَمِيعَ الشُّعُوبِ. (Sheol h7585)

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples. (Sheol h7585)

٦ 6 وَلَكِنْ لَا يَلْبَثُ أَنْ يَسْخَرَ مِنْهُ سَبَايَاهُ قَائِلِينَ:’وَيْلٌ لِمَنْ يُكَوِّمُ لِنَفْسِهِ الأَسْلابَ، وَيَثْرَى عَلَى حِسَابِ مَا نَهَبَ. إِنَّمَا إِلَى مَتَى؟‘

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

٧ 7 أَلا يَقُومُ عَلَيْكَ دَائِنُوكَ بَغْتَةً، أَوَ لَا يَثُورُونَ عَلَيْكَ وَيَمْلأُونَكَ رُعْباً، فَتُصْبِحَ لَهُمْ غَنِيمَةً؟

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

٨ 8 لأَنَّكَ سَلَبْتَ أُمَماً كَثِيرَةً فَإِنَّ بَقِيَّةَ الشُّعُوبِ يَنْهَبُونَكَ ثَأْراً لِمَا سَفَكْتَ مِنْ دِمَاءٍ وَارْتَكَبْتَ مِنْ جَوْرٍ فِي الأَرْضِ، فَدَمَّرْتَ مُدُناً وَأَهْلَكْتَ السَّاكِنِينَ فِيهَا.

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

٩ 9 وَيْلٌ لِمَنْ يَدَّخِرُ لِبَنِيهِ مَكْسَبَ ظُلْمٍ، وَيُشَيِّدُ مَسْكَنَهُ فِي مَقَامٍ حَصِينٍ لِيَكُونَ فِي مَأْمَنٍ مِنَ الْخَطَرِ.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

١٠ 10 لَقَدْ لَطَّخَتْ مُؤَامَرَتُكَ بَيْتَكَ بِالْعَارِ حِينَ اسْتَأْصَلْتَ أُمَماً عَدِيدَةً وَجَلَبْتَ الدَّمَارَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ.

You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

١١ 11 حَتَّى حِجَارَةُ الْجُدْرَانِ تَصْرُخُ مِنْ شَرِّكَ، فَتُرَدِّدُ الدَّعَائِمُ الْخَشَبِيَّةُ أَصْدَاءَهَا.

For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

١٢ 12 وَيْلٌ لِمَنْ يَبْنِي مَدِينَةً بِالدِّمَاءِ، وَيُؤَسِّسُ قَرْيَةً بِالإِثْمِ.

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

١٣ 13 أَلَمْ يَصْدُرِ الْقَضَاءُ مِنْ عِنْدِ الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ أَنْ يَؤُولَ تَعَبُ الشُّعُوبِ إِلَى النَّارِ وَجَهْدُ الأُمَمِ إِلَى الْبَاطِلِ؟

Behold, isn’t it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

١٤ 14 لأَنَّ الأَرْضَ سَتَمْتَلِئُ مِنْ مَعْرِفَةِ مَجْدِ الرَّبِّ كَمَا تَغْمُرُ الْمِيَاهُ الْبَحْرَ.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

١٥ 15 وَيْلٌ لِمَنْ يَسْقِي صَاحِبَهُ مِنْ كَأْسِ الْغَضَبِ إِلَى أَنْ يَسْكَرَ لِيَنْظُرَ إِلَى خِزْيِهِ.

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

١٦ 16 فَأَنْتَ تَشْبَعُ خِزْياً عِوَضَ الْمَجْدِ، فَاشْرَبْ أَنْتَ، وَتَرَنَّحْ، فَإِنَّ كَأْسَ يَمِينِ الرَّبِّ تَدُورُ عَلَيْكَ وَيُجَلِّلُ الْعَارُ مَجْدَكَ.

You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink and be exposed! The cup of the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

١٧ 17 لأَنَّ مَا ارْتَكَبْتَهُ مِنْ ظُلْمٍ فِي حَقِّ لُبْنَانَ يُغَطِّيكَ، وَمَا أَهْلَكْتَهُ مِنْ بَهَائِمَ يُرَوِّعُكَ. مِنْ أَجْلِ مَا سَفَكْتَهُ مِنْ دِمَاءٍ وَاقْتَرَفْتَهُ مِنْ جَوْرٍ فِي الأَرْضِ وَالْمُدُنِ وَالسَّاكِنِينَ فِيهَا.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

١٨ 18 أَيُّ جَدْوَى مِنْ تِمْثَالٍ حَتَّى يَصُوغَهُ صَانِعٌ، أَوْ صَنَمٍ يُعَلِّمُ الْكَذِبَ لأَنَّ مَنْ يَصْنَعُهُ يَتَّكِلُ عَلَى مَا صَنَعَهُ، وَهُوَ لَمْ يَصْنَعْ سِوَى أَصْنَامٍ بَكْمَاءَ.

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

١٩ 19 وَيْلٌ لِمَنْ يَقُولُ لِمَنْحُوتٍ خَشَبِيٍّ:’اسْتَيْقِظْ‘أَوْ لِحَجَرٍ أَبْكَمَ:’انْهَضْ‘. أَيُمْكِنُ أَنْ يَهْدِيَ؟ إِنَّمَا هُوَ مُغَشّىً بِالذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَخَالٍ مِنْ كُلِّ حَيَاةٍ.

Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.

٢٠ 20 أَمَّا الرَّبُّ فَفِي هَيْكَلِهِ الْمُقَدَّسِ، فَلْتَصْمُتِ الأَرْضُ كُلُّهَا فِي مَحْضَرِهِ».

But the LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”