Habakkuk 1

1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

The oracle which he saw Habakkuk the prophet.

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

Until when? O Yahweh have I cried for help and not you will hear I cry out to you violence and not you save.

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.

Why? do you make see me wickedness and mischief do you look at? and devastation and violence [are] to before me and it has been strife and contention it arises.

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

There-fore it grows numb [the] law and not it comes forth to perpetuity justice for [the] wicked [is] surrounding the righteous [person] there-fore it comes forth justice perverted.

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.

See among the nations and look and be astounded be astonished for a deed [I am] about to do in days your [which] not you will believe if it will be recounted.

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.

For here I [am] about to raise up the Chaldeans the nation bitter and impetuous which goes to [the] expanses of [the] earth to take possession of dwellings [which] not [belong] to it.

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

[is] terrifying And awesome it from itself justice its and dignity its it comes forth.

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.

And they are swift more than leopards horses its and they are keen more than wolves of [the] evening and they paw [the] ground warhorses its and horsemen its from a distance they come they fly like an eagle making haste to devour.

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

All of it for violence it comes [the] totality of faces their [is] east-ward and it gathered like sand captive[s].

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.

And it kings it derides and rulers [are] laughter to it it at every fortress it laughs and it heaped up earth and it captured it.

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

Then it swept on a wind and it passed on and he is guilty [the one] who strength his [becomes] god his.

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

¿ Not [are] you from antiquity O Yahweh God my holy [one] my not we will die O Yahweh to judgment you have appointed it and O rock to reprove you have established it.

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,

[you are too] pure of Eyes for seeing evil and to look to mischief not you are able why? do you look at treacherous [people] are you silent? when swallows up a wicked [person] a [person] righteous more than him.

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

And you have made humankind like [the] fish of the sea like creeping thing[s] [which] not a ruler [is] over it.

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.

All of it with a fish hook he brings up he drags away it in net his and he gathers it in fishing net his there-fore he rejoices and he may be glad.

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.

There-fore he sacrifices to net his so he may make smoke to fishing net his for by them [is] fat portion his and food his [is] fat.

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

¿ There-fore will he empty net his and continually to kill nations not will he spare?