Habakkuk 1

1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

哈巴谷先知在神視中所得的神諭。

2 LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

上主，我呼救而你不予垂聽，要到何時﹖向你呼喊「殘暴」，而你仍不施救﹖

3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

為什麼你仗我見到邪惡，人受壓迫，而你竟坐視﹖在我面前，只有壓害和殘暴，爭吵不休，辯論迭起。

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

為此法律鬆馳，正義不彰，惡人包圍了義人，因而產生歪曲的審判。

5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.

你們應觀察列邦，且應注意視，你們必要詑異驚奇，因在你們的日子內，我要做一件事，縱然有人述說，你們也不相信。

6 For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

看，我要激起加色丁人──那殘暴凶猛的民族，向廣大的地區進發，侵佔別人的居所。

7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

這民族獨斷獨行，目中無人，實令人恐怖。

8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

他們的馬捷於虎豹，猛於夜狼；他們的馬隊由遠方飛奔而來，像撲食的老鷹；

9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.

大事摧殘，而面目焦燥，有如烈風；聚集的俘虜，多似塵沙。

10 Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.

他們嘲笑列王，譏諷諸侯，嗤笑任何堡壘只堆一堆土，即可攻下；

11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”

然後鼓起勇氣向前猛進，以自己的力量為神。

12 Are not you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

吾主，你自古不就是我的天主，我的聖者﹖你決不會死亡! 上主，你派他們來是為審判；磐石，你立定他們是為懲罰。

13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

你的眼睛這樣純潔，以致見不得邪惡，見不得折磨! 你為什麼垂顧背信的人﹖當惡人吞噬較他們更義的人，你又為什麼緘默﹖

14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?

你竟把人當作海裏的魚，當作沒有主宰的爬蟲!

15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

他們把所有的一切用鉤子鉤上來，用網拉上來，用罟收集起來，為此歡欣踴躍，

16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.

向網祭獻，向罟焚香，因為給他們帶來了富裕的財物，豐美的飲食。

17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

難道因此他們就應時常倒空自己的羅，無情地屠殺萬民﹖