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.
[Super custodiam meam stabo, et figam gradum super munitionem: et contemplabor ut videam quid dicatur mihi, et quid respondeam ad arguentem me.]
2 The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
Et respondit mihi Dominus, et dixit: [Scribe visum, et explana eum super tabulas, ut percurrat qui legerit eum.
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.
Quia adhuc visus procul; et apparebit in finem, et non mentietur: si moram fecerit, exspecta illum, quia veniens veniet, et non tardabit.
4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
Ecce qui incredulus est, non erit recta anima ejus in semetipso; justus autem in fide sua vivet.
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.
Et quomodo vinum potantem decipit, sic erit vir superbus, et non decorabitur: qui dilatavit quasi infernus animam suam, et ipse quasi mors, et non adimpletur: et congregabit ad se omnes gentes, et coacervabit ad se omnes populos. (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?’
Numquid non omnes isti super eum parabolam sument, et loquelam ænigmatum ejus, et dicetur: Væ ei qui multiplicat non sua? usquequo et aggravat contra se densum lutum?
7 Will not your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Numquid non repente consurgent qui mordeant te, et suscitabuntur lacerantes te, et eris in rapinam eis?
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.
Quia tu spoliasti gentes multas, spoliabunt te omnes qui reliqui fuerint de populis, propter sanguinem hominis, et iniquitatem terræ, civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
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!
Væ qui congregat avaritiam malam domui suæ, ut sit in excelso nidus ejus, et liberari se putat de manu mali!
10 You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Cogitasti confusionem domui tuæ; concidisti populos multos, et peccavit anima tua.
11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Quia lapis de pariete clamabit, et lignum, quod inter juncturas ædificiorum est, respondebit.
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Væ qui ædificat civitatem in sanguinibus, et præparat urbem in iniquitate!
13 Behold, is not it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Numquid non hæc sunt a Domino exercituum? laborabunt enim populi in multo igne, et gentes in vacuum, et deficient.
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
Quia replebitur terra, ut cognoscant gloriam Domini, quasi aquæ operientes mare.
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!
Væ qui potum dat amico suo mittens fel suum, et inebrians ut aspiciat nuditatem ejus!
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.
Repletus es ignominia pro gloria; bibe tu quoque, et consopire. Circumdabit te calix dexteræ Domini, et vomitus ignominiæ super gloriam tuam.
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.
Quia iniquitas Libani operiet te, et vastitas animalium deterrebit eos de sanguinibus hominum, et iniquitate terræ, et civitatis, et omnium habitantium in ea.
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?
Quid prodest sculptile, quia sculpsit illud fictor suus, conflatile, et imaginem falsam? quia speravit in figmento fictor ejus, ut faceret simulacra muta.
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.
Væ qui dicit ligno: Expergiscere; Surge, lapidi tacenti! Numquid ipse docere poterit? ecce iste coopertus est auro et argento, et omnis spiritus non est in visceribus ejus.
20 But the LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
Dominus autem in templo sancto suo: sileat a facie ejus omnis terra!]
