Habakkuk 2

1 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.

我要立在我的守望台上，置身於堡壘上窺探，看他對我說什麼，看他怎樣答覆我的怨訴。

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

上主回答我說：「你寫出這神視，清楚地刻在版上，使人能順利誦讀。

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

因為這神視有一定的時期，最後必要實現，決無欺詐；若遲廷了，你應等待；它必再來，決不誤期。

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

看，心術不正的，必然消逝；人必因他們的信賴而生活。

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

的確，財物使人失信，使人驕傲，不能仗人安息；它張開自己像陰府的咽喉，又如不知饜足的死亡，聚集萬民，匯合列國，歸屬自己。 (Sheol h7585)

6 Will not 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?’

那時，這些人民豈不都吟諷刺詩，以隱語嘲弄他說：禍哉，那只顧聚歛他人財物的人，堆積抵押於自己家中，要到何時﹖

7 Will not your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

你的債豈不要忽然起來，追債者豈不要醒起，你必成為他們的掠物!

8 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.

因為你搶掠過許多民族，各民族的遺也必要搶掠你；因為你流了人的血，使地域、城市和其中所有的居民遭受了摧殘。

9 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!

禍哉! 那取重利，而給自家遭禍，並在高處設置高巢，想避免災禍的人!

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

你消滅許多民族，正是為自家遭來羞恥，危害自己的性命，

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

因為石頭必由牆中呼喊，棟零樑必由屋脊應和。

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

禍哉，那以血債建造城市，以邪惡建立城鎮的人!

13 Behold, is not it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

這豈不要出於萬軍上主的意願：列國只為火而勤勞，萬民辛苦只是一場空﹖

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

因為大地要充滿對上主光榮的知識，就如水充滿海洋。

15 “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!

禍哉，那以攙有毒物的給自己近人喝，使他酣醉，圖見他裸體的人!

16 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.

你必飽嘗恥辱，而毫無光榮。如今應該你喝，顯露你未割損之物。上主右手中的杯已輪到了你，恥辱要遮蓋你的光榮。

17 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.

你加於黎巴嫩的摧殘，必臨於你；你施於走獸的虐待，必使你恐懼，因為 你流了人的血，使地域、城市和其中所有居民遭受了摧殘。

18 “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?

彫像有何用處﹖竟使工匠彫刻它﹖鑄像，即撒謊之師，又有何用，竟值得製造它的人依賴它﹖他不要為自己製造了啞像﹖

19 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.

禍哉，那對木頭說：「醒來，」對石頭說：「起來」的人! 這樣的東西豈能施救﹖看，它只是塗了一層金銀，內卻毫無氣息。

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

但上主卻住在自己的聖殿內，整個大地在衪面前都應肅靜。