Habakkuk 1
1:1The concern which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
1:2For how long, O lord, shall I cry out, and in no way should you listen? For how long shall I yell to you being wronged, and you should not deliver?
1:3Why did you show to me toils and troubles, to look upon misery and impiety? Right opposite me takes place judgment, and the judge takes away.
1:4On account of this the law is effaced, and judgment is not administered unto the end, for the impious tyrannize over the just. Because of this judgment shall go forth being perverted.
1:5Behold, O despisers, and look! and wonder wonders, and vanish! For I work a work in your days which in no way you shall believe if any should tell of it in detail.
1:6For behold, I awaken the Chaldeans, the bitter and quick nation; the one going upon the widths of the earth, to inherit tents not of his.
1:7He is fearful and apparent; his judgment will be of himself, and his concern of himself shall come forth.
1:8And his horses shall leap more than leopards, and are sharper than the wolves of Arabia. And his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall advance far off; and they shall spread out as an eagle eager for something to eat.
1:9Consumption shall come unto the impious opposing their fronts right opposite, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.
1:10And he shall revel among kings, and sovereigns are his playthings. And he shall mock at every fortress, and shall throw up an embankment, and shall prevail over it.
1:11Then he shall turn the spirit, and shall go through, and shall make atonement, saying, This strength is to my god.
1:12Are you not from the beginning, O lord my God, my holy one? In no way should we die. O lord, for judgment -- you have ordered it. And he shaped me to reprove for his discipline.
1:13Pure is the eye to not see evil things, and you are not able to look upon evils. Why should you look upon ones disdaining? Shall you remain silent in the impious swallowing down the just?
1:14And will you make the men as the fishes of the sea, and as the reptiles not having one taking the lead?
1:15He pulled up consumption with a hook, and drew it with his casting-net, and gathered it in his dragnets. Because of this he shall be glad and shall rejoice.
1:16Because of this he will sacrifice to his dragnet, and burn incense to his casting-net; for by them he fattened his portion, even his choice foods.
1:17On account of this he will cast his casting-net, and always to kill nations -- not sparing?