Habakkuk

1I 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.

2The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

3For 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.

4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol;he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.

6Won’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?’

7Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

8Because 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.

9Woe 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!

10You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

11For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

13Behold, isn’t it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

15“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!

16You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink and be exposed! The cup of the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

17For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

18“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?

19Woe 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.

20But the LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

1và đáp lại nỗi bất bình của tôi ra sao !

2và khắc vào tấm bia cho ai nấy đọc được xuôi chảy.

3vì thế nào nó cũng đến, chứ không trì hoãn đâu.

4nhờ lòng thành tín của mình.”

5tập hợp mọi nước tới quanh mình.

6Khốn thay kẻ giữ đầy mình của người ta cầm cố !

7Bấy giờ ngươi sẽ là món mồi ngon cho chúng.

8

9để làm tổ cho mình trên cao hầu thoát khỏi tai hoạ.

10ngươi tiêu huỷ nhiều dân nên thành người đắc tội,

11III

12lấy bất công dựng phố.

13đó chẳng phải là do ĐỨC CHÚA các đạo binh sao ?

14IV

15kẻ pha chất độc làm cho nó say sưa, để thấy nó trần truồng.

16nỗi ô nhục sẽ thay thế vinh quang của ngươi.

17V

18để làm ra những tượng câm nín ?

19nhưng không một chút sinh khí nơi mình.

20toàn thể cõi đất, hãy thinh lặng trước nhan Người !