Habakkuk

A prophet's dialogue with God about violence and faith

A short prophetic book structured as a dialogue between the prophet and God about the rise of the Babylonians and the suffering of the righteous. It contains the line the righteous shall live by faith, later central to Pauline theology.

第1章
1
先知哈巴谷所得的默示。
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2
他說、耶和華阿、我呼求你、你不應允、要到幾時呢．我因強暴哀求你、你還不拯救。
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
3
你爲何使我看見罪孽．你爲何看着奸惡而不理呢．毀滅和強暴在我面前．又起了爭端和相鬬的事。
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
4
因此律法放鬆、公理也不顯明．惡人圍困義人．所以公理顯然顚倒。
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
5
耶和華說、你們要向列國中觀看、大大驚奇．因爲在你們的時候、我行一件事、雖有人告訴你們、你們總是不信。
“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.
6
我必興起迦勒底人、就是那殘忍暴躁之民、通行徧地、佔據那不屬自己的住處。
For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7
他威武可畏．判斷和勢力、都任意發出。
They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8
他的馬比豹更快、比晚上的豺狼更猛．馬兵踴躍爭先、都從遠方而來．他們飛跑如鷹抓食．
Their 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.
9
都爲行強暴而來．定住臉面向前、將擄掠的人聚集、多如塵沙。
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
10
他們譏誚君王、笑話首領、嗤笑一切保障、築壘攻取。
Yes, 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.
11
他以自己的勢力爲神、像風猛然掃過、顯爲有罪。
Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”
12
耶和華我的 神、我的聖者阿、你不是從亙古而有麼．我們必不至死。耶和華阿、你派定他爲要刑罰人．磐石阿、你設立他爲要懲治人。
Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
13
你眼目清潔不看邪僻、不看奸惡．行詭詐的、你爲何看着不理呢．惡人吞滅比自己公義的、你爲何靜默不語呢．
You 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,
14
你爲何使人如海中的魚、又如沒有管轄的爬物呢。
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
15
他用鈎鈎住、用網捕獲、用拉網聚集他們．因此、他歡喜快樂．
He 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.
16
就向網獻祭、向網燒香、因他由此得肥美的分、和富裕的食物。
Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
17
他豈可屢次倒空網羅、將列國的人時常殺戮、毫不顧惜呢。
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
第2章
1
我要站在守望所、立在望樓上觀看、看耶和華對我說甚麼話、我可用甚麼話向他訴寃。〈向他訴寃或作回答所疑問的〉
I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
2
他對我說、將這默示明明的寫在版上、使讀的人容易讀。〈或作隨跑隨讀〉
Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
3
因爲這默示有一定的日期、快要應驗、並不虛謊．雖然遲延、還要等候．因爲必然臨到、不再遲延。
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
4
迦勒底人自高自大、心不正直．惟義人因信得生。
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
5
迦勒底人因酒詭詐、狂傲、不住在家中、擴充心欲好像陰間．他如死不能知足、聚集萬國、堆積萬民、都歸自己。
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
6
這些國的民、豈不都要題起詩歌、並俗語、譏刺他、說、禍哉迦勒底人、你增添不屬自己的財物、多多取人的當頭、要到幾時爲止呢。
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
7
咬傷你的豈不忽然起來、擾害你的豈不興起、你就作他們的擄物麼。
Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
8
因你搶奪許多的國、殺人流血、向國內的城、並城中一切居民施行強暴、所以各國剩下的民都必搶奪你。
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
9
爲本家積蓄不義之財、在高處搭窩、指望免災的有禍了。
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
10
你圖謀剪除多國的民、犯了罪、使你的家蒙羞、自害己命。
You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
11
牆裏的石頭必呼叫、房內的棟梁必應聲。
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
12
以人血建城、以罪孽立邑的有禍了。
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13
衆民所勞碌得來的、被火焚燒、列國由勞乏而得的、歸於虛空、不都是出於萬軍之耶和華麼。
Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
14
認識耶和華榮耀的知識、要充滿徧地、好像水充滿洋海一般。
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
15
給人酒喝、又加上毒物、使他喝醉、好看見他下體的、有禍了。
“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
16
你滿受羞辱、不得榮耀．你也喝罷、顯出是未受割禮的．耶和華右手的杯、必傳到你那裏、你的榮耀、就變爲大大的羞辱。
You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
17
你向利巴嫩行強暴、與殘害驚嚇野獸的事、必遮蓋你．因你殺人流血、向國內的城、並城中一切居民施行強暴。
For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
18
雕刻的偶像、人將他刻出來、有甚麼益處呢．鑄造的偶像、就是虛謊的師傅．製造者倚靠這啞吧偶像、有甚麼益處呢．
“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
19
對木偶說、醒起、對啞吧石像說、起來、那人有禍了．這個還能教訓人麼．看哪、是包裹金銀的、其中毫無氣息。
Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
20
惟耶和華在他的聖殿中．全地的人、都當在他面前肅敬靜默。
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
第3章
1
先知哈巴谷的禱告、調用流離歌。
A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
2
耶和華阿、我聽見你的名聲、〈名聲或作言語〉就懼怕。耶和華阿、求你在這些年間復興你的作爲、在這些年間顯明出來、在發怒的時候、以憐憫爲念。
Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
3
神從提幔而來、聖者從巴蘭山臨到。細拉他的榮光遮蔽諸天、頌讚充滿大地。
God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
4
他的輝煌如同日光．從他手裏射出光線．在其中藏着他的能力。
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
5
在他前面有瘟疫流行、在他腳下有熱症發出。
Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
6
他站立、量了大地．〈或作使地震動〉觀看、趕散萬民．永久的山崩裂、長存的嶺塌陷．他的作爲與古時一樣。
He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
7
我見古珊的帳棚遭難、米甸的幔子戰兢。
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
8
耶和華阿、你乘在馬上、坐在得勝的車上、豈是不喜悅江河、向江河發怒氣、向洋海發憤恨麼。
Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
9
你的弓全然顯露向衆支派所起的誓、都是可信的。細拉你以江河分開大地。
You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
10
山嶺見你、無不戰懼．大水氾濫過去、深淵發聲、洶湧翻騰。〈原文作向上舉手〉
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
11
因你的箭射出發光、你的槍閃出光耀、日月都在本宮停住。
The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
12
你發憤恨通行大地、發怒氣責打列國、如同打糧。
You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
13
你出來要拯救你的百姓、拯救你的受膏者、打破惡人家長的頭、露出他的腳、〈腳原文作根基〉直到頸項。細拉
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
14
你用敵人的戈矛刺透他戰士的頭．他們來如旋風、要將我們分散。他們所喜愛的、是暗中吞喫貧民。
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
15
你乘馬踐踏紅海、就是踐踏洶湧的大水。
You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.
16
我聽見耶和華的聲音、身體戰兢、嘴唇發顫、骨中朽爛．我在所立之處戰兢．我只可安靜等候災難之日臨到、犯境之民上來。
I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
17
雖然無花果樹不發旺、葡萄樹不結果、橄欖樹也不効力、田地不出糧食、圈中絕了羊、棚內也沒有牛．
For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
18
然而我要因耶和華歡欣、因救我的 神喜樂。
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
19
主耶和華是我的力量．他使我的腳快如母鹿的蹄、又使我穩行在高處。這歌交與伶長、用絲絃的樂器。
Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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