Habakkuk 哈巴谷书01

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1The oracle¹ that Habakkuk the prophet received.
2How long, O Lord , must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?
3Why do you make me look at injustice²? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife³, and conflict abounds⁴. 4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem⁵ in the righteous, so that justice is perverted⁶.
5"Look at the nations and watch- and be utterly⁷ amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
6I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling⁸ places not their own.
7They are a feared and dreaded⁹ people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.
8Their horses are swifter than leopards¹⁰, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry¹¹ gallops¹² headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like a vulture swooping¹³ to devour¹⁴;
9they all come bent¹⁵ on violence. Their hordes¹⁶ advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.
10They deride¹⁷ kings and scoff¹⁸ at rulers. They laugh at all fortified¹⁹ cities; they build earthen ramps²⁰ and capture them.
11Then they sweep past like the wind and go on- guilty men, whose own strength is their god."
12O Lord , are you not from everlasting²¹? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O Lord , you have appointed them to execute judgment²²; O Rock, you have ordained²³ them to punish.
13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous²⁴? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
14You have made men like fish in the sea, like sea creatures that have no ruler.
15The wicked foe²⁵ pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad.
16Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense²⁶ to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
17Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?