¹The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

¹Prorokovanje, ki ga je v prikazni prejel Habakuk, prorok.

²O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

²Kako dolgo, o GOSPOD, sem vpil k tebi, in ne slišiš! Vpijem k tebi o nasilstvu, a ne rešiš.

³Why 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.

³Zakaj dopuščaš, da vidim krivico, zakaj gledaš nadlogo? Kajti pustošenje in nasilstvo je pred menoj, in nastaja prepir in vnema se boj!

⁴Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

⁴Zato izgublja postava veljavo in prava sodba ne pride nikdar na dan; kajti brezbožnik obdaja pravičnega, zato prihaja le popačena sodba na svetlo.

⁵Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

⁵Ozrite se v narode in poglejte, in čudite se, strmite; kajti delam v dneh vaših delo, ki ga ne boste verovali, če kdo pripoveduje.

⁶For, 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 their's.

⁶Glejte, jaz obujam Kaldejce, tisto trdo in hitro ljudstvo, ki hodi po širjavi zemlje, da si lasti domovanja, ki niso njegova.

⁷They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

⁷Strašno je in grozovito; sodba in mogočnost njegova izvirata od njega samega.

⁸Their 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.

⁸Čili so konji njegovi bolj nego pardi in hitrejši nego volkovi na večer; ponosno dirjajo konjiki njegovi, jezdeci njegovi prihajajo oddaleč, lete kakor orel, ki plane na jed.

⁹They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

⁹Vsi prihajajo zavoljo nasilstva! oči jim gledajo naravnost predse in ujetnike grabijo kakor pesek.

¹⁰And 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.

¹⁰Smeje se to ljudstvo kraljem in knezi so mu v zasmeh; zasmehuje vsako trdnjavo, ker nanosi zemlje in jo vzame.

¹¹Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

¹¹Potem puhne kakor veter mimo in preide ter se pregreši: ta moč njegova mu je bog!

¹²Art 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.

¹²Nisi li ti od vekomaj, GOSPOD, Bog moj in Svetnik moj? Mi ne umrjemo. O GOSPOD, za sodbo si ga postavil, o Skala, strahovanje si mu zaukazal.

¹³Thou 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?

¹³Prečiste so tvoje oči, da bi gledal hudo, in nepravde ne moreš videti: zakaj gledaš na tiste, ki ravnajo izdajalski, molčiš, ko brezbožnik požira pravičnejšega od sebe?

¹⁴And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

¹⁴in dopuščaš, da se ravna z ljudmi kakor z morskimi ribami, kakor s črvadjo, ki nima vladarja? –

¹⁵They 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.

¹⁵Vse jih lovi s trnkom, jih vleče v mreži svoji in zbira v svojo vršo; ob tem se veseli in vriska.

¹⁶Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

¹⁶Zato daruje mreži in žge kadilo vrši svoji; kajti po njej ima debel delež in preobilen živež.Sme li zato vedno prazniti mrežo svojo in neprestano moriti narode neusmiljeno?

¹⁷Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

¹⁷Sme li zato vedno prazniti mrežo svojo in neprestano moriti narode neusmiljeno?