¹先知首次疑问

¹The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

²耶和华啊！我恳求，你不垂听，要到几时呢？我向你呼叫“有狂暴的事”，你却不拯救。

² Yahweh, “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

³你为什么使我看见恶行？有奸恶的事，你为什么见而不理？毁灭和强暴在我面前，纷争和相斗常常发生。

³Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

⁴因此律法不能生效（“律法不能生效”原文作“律法松懈”），公理无法彰显。因为恶人把义人包围，所以公理颠倒。

⁴Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

⁵耶和华的回答你们当看列国，要定睛观看，就会大大惊奇，因为在你们的日子，我要作一件事，即使有人说了出来，你们也不会相信。

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.

⁶就是要兴起迦勒底人，那残忍凶暴的民；他们遍行全地，占领别人的家园。

⁶For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

⁷他们恐怖可怕，自以为义，趾高气扬。

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

⁸他们的马比豹更快，比晚上的豺狼更猛。他们的骑兵奔驰，自远而来；他们如鹰飞翔，迅速吞噬。

⁸Their 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.

⁹他们定着脸面向前，齐来行暴，掳获战俘多如尘沙。

⁹All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

¹⁰他们戏弄君王，以掌权的为笑柄；他们嗤笑一切城堡，筑垒攻取；

¹⁰Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

¹¹然后扫荡如风吹过。他们是有罪的，因他们以自己的势力为神。

¹¹Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”

¹²先知第二次的疑问耶和华我的　神，我的圣者啊！你不是自古就有的吗？我们不会死的。耶和华啊！你派他们行审判。磐石啊！你立他们施惩罚。

¹²Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” , my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

¹³你的眼目纯洁，不看邪恶，不能坐视奸恶；为什么见行诡诈的人而不理？恶人吞灭比自己公义的人，你为什么缄默呢？

¹³You 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,

¹⁴你竟使人像海里的鱼，像无人管辖的爬虫类。

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

¹⁵迦勒底人既用钩把他们钓起来，用网拖走，用鱼网收聚在一处，就欢喜快乐，

¹⁵He 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.

¹⁶向自己的网献祭，对鱼网烧香，因他们借此收获丰富，饮食充裕。

¹⁶Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

¹⁷这样，他们倒空自己的网，毫不留情地继续杀戮列国。

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