1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw. 2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? 3 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 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

5 "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 For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. 7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 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 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand. 10 Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it. 11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god."

12 Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. 13 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 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them? 15 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 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 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

1 哈巴谷先知所得的默示。

2 耶和华啊！ 我恳求， 你不垂听， 要到几时呢？我向你呼叫"有狂暴的事"， 你却不拯救。

3 你为什么使我看见恶行？有奸恶的事， 你为什么见而不理？毁灭和强暴在我面前， 纷争和相斗常常发生。

4 因此律法不能生效（"律法不能生效"原文作"律法松懈"）， 公理无法彰显。因为恶人把义人包围， 所以公理颠倒。

5 你们当看列国， 要定睛观看， 就会大大惊奇， 因为在你们的日子， 我要作一件事， 即使有人说了出来， 你们也不会相信。

6 就是要兴起迦勒底人， 那残忍凶暴的民； 他们遍行全地， 占领别人的家园。

7 他们恐怖可怕， 自以为义， 趾高气扬。

8 他们的马比豹更快， 比晚上的豺狼更猛。他们的骑兵奔驰， 自远而来； 他们如鹰飞翔， 迅速吞噬。

9 他们定着脸面向前， 齐来行暴， 掳获战俘多如尘沙。

10 他们戏弄君王， 以掌权的为笑柄； 他们嗤笑一切城堡， 筑垒攻取；

11 然后扫荡如风吹过。他们是有罪的， 因他们以自己的势力为神。

12 耶和华我的 神， 我的圣者啊！ 你不是自古就有的吗？我们不会死的。耶和华啊！ 你派他们行审判。磐石啊！ 你立他们施惩罚。

13 你的眼目纯洁， 不看邪恶， 不能坐视奸恶； 为什么见行诡诈的人而不理？恶人吞灭比自己公义的人， 你为什么缄默呢？

14 你竟使人像海里的鱼， 像无人管辖的爬虫类。

15 迦勒底人既用钩把他们钓起来， 用网拖走， 用鱼网收聚在一处， 就欢喜快乐，

16 向自己的网献祭， 对鱼网烧香， 因他们借此收获丰富， 饮食充裕。

17 这样， 他们倒空自己的网， 毫不留情地继续杀戮列国。