1:1 先知哈巴谷所得的默示。

The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

 

1:2 他说，耶和华阿，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。

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

 

1:3 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。

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

 

1:4 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。

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

 

1:5 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。

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

 

1:6 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。

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

 

1:7 他威武可畏。判断和*，都任意发出。

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

 

1:8 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。

Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

 

1:9 都为行强暴而来。定住脸面向前，将掳掠的人聚集，多如尘沙。

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

 

1:10 他们讥诮君王，笑话首领，嗤笑一切保障，筑垒攻取。

And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

 

1:11 他以自己的*为神，像风猛然扫过，显为有罪。

Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

 

1:12 耶和华我的神，我的圣者阿，你不是从亘古而有吗。我们必不致死。耶和华阿，你派定他为要刑罚人。磐石阿，你设立他为要惩治人。

Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

 

1:13 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。

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

 

1:14 你为何使人如海中的鱼，又如没有管辖的爬物呢。

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

 

1:15 他用钩钩住，用网捕获，用拉网聚集他们。因此，他欢喜快乐。

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

 

1:16 就向网献祭，向网烧香。因他由此得肥美的分，和富裕的食物。

Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

 

1:17 他岂可屡次倒空网罗，将列国的人时常杀戮，毫不顾惜呢。

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?