< Habakkuk 1 >

1 [I am] Habakkuk, a prophet. This is the [message that Yahweh] gave to me in a vision.
先知哈巴谷所得的默示。
2 [I said, ] “Yahweh, how long must I continue to call [to you] for help before you respond? I cry out to you [for help], saying that [people are acting] violently [everywhere], but you do not rescue us!
他说:耶和华啊!我呼求你, 你不应允,要到几时呢? 我因强暴哀求你,你还不拯救。
3 (Must I/I do not want to) continue seeing people doing what is unjust [RHQ]. Why do you not punish people who are doing what is wrong [RHQ]? I see people destroying things and [acting] violently. There is fighting and quarreling [everywhere].
你为何使我看见罪孽? 你为何看着奸恶而不理呢? 毁灭和强暴在我面前, 又起了争端和相斗的事。
4 No one obeys laws [PRS], and judges [PRS] never do what is fair/just. Wicked people always defeat righteous people [in the courts], with the result that matters are never decided fairly/justly.”
因此律法放松, 公理也不显明; 恶人围困义人, 所以公理显然颠倒。
5 [Yahweh replied to me, ] “[I know that what you say is true, but] look around at [what is happening in] the other nations; [if you look, ] you will be amazed, because I am doing something during this time that you would not believe [would happen], even if someone told you about it.
耶和华说:你们要向列国中观看, 大大惊奇; 因为在你们的时候,我行一件事, 虽有人告诉你们,你们总是不信。
6 The soldiers of Babylonia are fierce/cruel and swift. And now I am causing them [to become very powerful]; they will march across the world and conquer [many] other countries.
我必兴起迦勒底人, 就是那残忍暴躁之民,通行遍地, 占据那不属自己的住处。
7 They are people whom [others] fear very much [DOU], and they do whatever they want to, paying no attention to the laws of other countries.
他威武可畏, 判断和势力都任意发出。
8 The horses [that pull their chariots] go faster than leopards, and they are fiercer than wolves are in the evening. The horses on which the soldiers ride gallop swiftly; the soldiers riding them come from distant places. They are like [SIM] eagles that swoop down to [snatch and] kill small animals.
他的马比豹更快, 比晚上的豺狼更猛。 马兵踊跃争先, 都从远方而来; 他们飞跑如鹰抓食,
9 As they ride along, [they are] determined to act violently. They advance like [SIM] a wind from the desert, gathering prisoners that are as [numerous as grains of] sand.
都为行强暴而来, 定住脸面向前, 将掳掠的人聚集,多如尘沙。
10 They make fun of kings and princes [of other countries], and they ridicule all the cities that have high walls around them. They pile dirt [outside those walls] [in order to climb up] and capture those cities.
他们讥诮君王,笑话首领, 嗤笑一切保障,筑垒攻取。
11 They rush past like the wind, and then they go [to attack other cities]. But they are very guilty, because [they think that] their own power is their god.”
他以自己的势力为神, 像风猛然扫过,显为有罪。
12 [Then I said, ] “Yahweh, you have certainly [RHQ] always/forever been God. You are my Holy One; you will not die. So [why] have you appointed those men [from Babylonia] to judge and get rid of [us]? You are like [MET] a huge rock [under which we are protected/safe], so why have you sent them to punish us?
耶和华—我的 神,我的圣者啊, 你不是从亘古而有吗? 我们必不致死。 耶和华啊,你派定他为要刑罚人; 磐石啊,你设立他为要惩治人。
13 You [SYN] are pure, and you cannot endure looking at what is evil, [so why] are you ignoring men who are treacherous? Why do you do nothing [to punish] those wicked men [from Babylonia] who destroy people who are more righteous than they [are]?
你眼目清洁, 不看邪僻,不看奸恶; 行诡诈的,你为何看着不理呢? 恶人吞灭比自己公义的, 你为何静默不语呢?
14 [Do you consider that] we are like fish in the sea, or like other creatures in the sea, that have no ruler?
你为何使人如海中的鱼, 又如没有管辖的爬物呢?
15 [The soldiers of Babylonia think that we are fish] [RHQ] for them to pull out of the sea with hooks or to catch in their nets, while they rejoice and celebrate.
他用钩钩住,用网捕获, 用拉网聚集他们; 因此,他欢喜快乐,
16 If they catch us, they will [worship] their weapons [MET] with which they captured us, and offer sacrifices to them and burn incense in front of them! [They will say] ‘Those weapons have enabled us to become rich and be able to eat expensive food.’
就向网献祭,向网烧香, 因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。
17 [Will you allow] them to continue [to conquer people] [MET] forever? [Will you allow] them to destroy people of other nations without their being merciful [to anyone]?”
他岂可屡次倒空网罗, 将列国的人时常杀戮,毫不顾惜呢?

< Habakkuk 1 >