¹The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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, 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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,

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 make men like the fish of the sea, like 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? –

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.

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

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

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?

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

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