哈巴谷书 1 – CCB & NIVUK

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

哈巴谷书 1:1-17

1以下是哈巴谷先知得到的启示。

哈巴谷的抱怨

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,

你却不拯救。

3你为何让我目睹罪恶?

你为何容忍邪恶?

我眼前尽是毁灭和暴力,

到处是纷争和冲突。

4因此律法失效,

正义不彰,

恶人包围义人,

正义被扭曲。

耶和华的答复

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,

即使你们听说了也不会相信。

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他们任意妄为,

令人胆战心惊。

8“他们的马比豹子还快,

比夜狼还猛。

他们的骑兵从远方飞驰而来,

如鹰扑食。

9他们残暴成性,

像狂风一样扑来,

抓获的俘虏多如尘沙。

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他们如狂风横扫而过,

这些有罪的人把自己的力量奉为神明。”

哈巴谷再次抱怨

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1:12 你永不消逝”另有希伯来文抄本作“我们不会死”。

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你为何使人像海里的鱼,

像没有首领的爬虫呢?

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难道他们要无休止地撒网,

无情地毁灭列国吗?

New International Version – UK

Habakkuk 1:1-17

1The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.

Habakkuk’s complaint

2How long, 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 injustice?

Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?

Destruction and violence are before me;

there is strife, and conflict abounds.

4Therefore the law is paralysed,

and justice never prevails.

The wicked hem in the righteous,

so that justice is perverted.

The Lord’s answer

5‘Look at the nations and watch –

and be utterly 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,1:6 Or Chaldeans

that ruthless and impetuous people,

who sweep across the whole earth

to seize dwellings not their own.

7They are a feared and dreaded people;

they are a law to themselves

and promote their own honour.

8Their horses are swifter than leopards,

fiercer than wolves at dusk.

Their cavalry gallops headlong;

their horsemen come from afar.

They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;

9they all come intent on violence.

Their hordes1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. advance like a desert wind

and gather prisoners like sand.

10They mock kings

and scoff at rulers.

They laugh at all fortified cities;

by building earthen ramps they capture them.

11Then they sweep past like the wind and go on –

guilty people, whose own strength is their god.’

Habakkuk’s second complaint

12Lord, are you not from everlasting?

My God, my Holy One, you1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we will never die.

You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment;

you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.

13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;

you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.

Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?

Why are you silent while the wicked

swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

14You have made people like the fish in the sea,

like the sea creatures that have no ruler.

15The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks,

he catches them in his net,

he gathers them up in his drag-net;

and so he rejoices and is glad.

16Therefore he sacrifices to his net

and burns incense to his drag-net,

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?