Habakkuk 1

1 This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:

1 以下是哈巴谷先知得到的启示。

2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?

2 耶和华啊， 我要向你呼救到何时， 你才垂听呢？ 暴虐横行，我向你呼求到何时， 你才肯拯救？

3 Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

3 你为何让我目睹罪恶？ 你为何对邪恶坐视不理？ 我眼前尽是毁灭和暴力， 到处是纷争和冲突。

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

4 因此律法失效， 正义不彰， 恶人包围义人， 正义被扭曲。

5 “Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.

5 耶和华说：“你们环顾列国， 仔细察看， 必惊奇不已， 因为我要在你们的时代行一件事， 即使有人告诉你们，你们也不会相信。

6 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

6 我要使凶残、暴虐的迦勒底人兴起。 他们要席卷天下， 强占别人的家园。

7 They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.

7 他们任意妄为， 令人胆战心惊。

8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

8 “他们的马比豹子还快， 比夜间的豺狼还猛。 他们的骑兵从远方飞驰而来， 如鹰扑食。

9 All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

9 他们残暴成性， 像狂风一样扑来， 抓获的俘虏多如尘沙。

10 They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

10 他们嘲笑君王，讥讽首领， 对一切坚城嗤之以鼻， 修筑高台将其攻取。

11 Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

11 这些罪人如狂风横扫而过， 他们奉自己的力量为神明。”

12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

12 耶和华， 我的上帝，我的圣者啊， 你从亘古就存在， 你永不消逝 。 耶和华啊，你派迦勒底人来审判； 磐石啊，你立他们作施罚者。

13 Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

13 你的眼目极为清洁， 见不得邪恶， 也不能容忍罪恶。 但你为何容忍奸恶之人呢？ 恶人吞灭比他们公义的人， 你为何默然不语呢？

14 You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

14 你为何使人像海里的鱼， 像没有首领的爬虫呢？

15 The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

15 迦勒底人用钩子钩住他们， 用渔网网住他们， 用拖网把他们聚在一起， 并因此而欢喜快乐。

16 Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

16 迦勒底人向渔网献祭， 向渔网烧香， 因为他们靠渔网而富裕， 食物充足。

17 Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

17 难道他们要无休止地撒网， 无情地毁灭列国吗？