申言者哈巴谷所见的默示。
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

耶和华啊，我呼求你，你不垂听，要到几时呢？我向你呼叫说，残暴！你并不拯救。
How long, O Jehovah, shall I cry / And You do not hear? / I cry out to You, Violence! / And You do not save.

你为何使我看见罪孽，为何使我见到奸恶呢？毁灭和强暴在我面前；又有争端，且起了争斗的事。
Why do You cause me to see iniquity / And look upon wrong? / Indeed destruction and violence are before me; / And there is strife, and contention arises.

因此律法失效，公理也不显明；恶人围困义人，所以公理显然颠倒。
Therefore the law is ineffective, / And justice never goes forth; / For the wicked one encompasses the righteous one, / Therefore justice goes forth perverted.

你们向列国中观看注视，就必大大惊奇；因为在你们的日子，我行一件事，即使有人详细地告诉你们，你们也总不相信。
Look among the nations, and see, / And be amazed, utterly amazed. / For I am doing a work in your days / Which you would not believe if it were told you.

因为我必兴起迦勒底人，就是那苦毒急躁之民；他们遍行广阔之地，占据不属自己的住处。
For I am about to raise up the Chaldeans, / That bitter and hasty nation / That marches through the breadth of the earth / To possess habitations that are not theirs.

他们威武可畏；判断和权柄，都任由他们发出。
They are terrible and dreadful; / Their judgment and their authority issue from themselves.

他们的马比豹更快，比晚上的豺狼更猛；马兵奔驰，都从远方而来；他们飞跑，如鹰急速抓食。
And their horses are swifter than leopards / And more agile than the wolves of evening. / And their horsemen prance about; / Indeed their horsemen come from afar; / They fly like an eagle that hastens to devour.

他们都为行强暴而来；定住脸面向前，将掳掠的人聚集，多如尘沙。
All of them come to do violence; / The set of their faces is forward, / And they gather captives like sand.

他们嘲弄君王，笑话掌权者；他们嗤笑一切保障，堆筑土垒攻取。
Indeed they scoff at kings, / And potentates are a derision to them; / They deride every fortress, / For they heap up dirt and take it.

然后他们像风横扫而过，因此有了罪过；他们以自己的这力量为他们的神。
Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass over / And thus become guilty; this — their strength — is their god.

耶和华我的神，我的圣者啊，你不是从亘古就有么？我们必不至死。耶和华啊，你派定他们行审判；磐石啊，你设立他们施管教。
Are You not from everlasting, O Jehovah, / My God, my Holy One? We will not die. / O Jehovah, You have appointed them for judgment; / And You, O Rock, have established them for correction.

你眼目清洁不看邪僻，不看奸恶；行诡诈的，你为何看着不理呢？恶人吞灭比自己公义的，你为何静默不语呢？
You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil / And who cannot look upon wrong, / Why do You look upon them who deal treacherously / And keep silent when the wicked man swallows up him who is more righteous than he?

你使人如海中的鱼，如无人管辖的爬物。
And You make man like the fish of the sea, / Like the creeping things, who have no one to rule for them.

他们用钩将众人钩上，用网拖走，用拉网聚集；因此，他们喜乐欢腾，
They take all of them up with a hook; / They drag them off in their net / And gather them into their seine; / So they rejoice and exult.

就向自己的网献祭，向自己的拉网烧香，因他们由此得肥美的分，和充裕的食物。
Therefore they offer sacrifices to their net / And burn incense to their seine, / For by them their portion is fat / And their food is plenteous.

难道他们就这样倒空自己的网，不断杀戮列国的人，毫不顾惜么？
Will they then empty their net / And continually slay the nations without sparing?