微读圣经

1The pronouncement1:1 Is 13:1; 30:6; Jr 18:18; Ezk 12:10; Hab 1:1; Zch 9:1; 12:1; Mal 1:1 that the prophet Habakkuk saw.1:1 Nm 24:4; Jb 19:26; Is 13:1

Habakkuk’s First Prayer

2How long,1:2 Ps 4:2; 6:3; 13:1 Lord, must I call for help1:2 Jb 19:7; Ps 5:2; Lm 3:8

and you do not listen

or cry out to you about violence1:2 Jr 6:7; Ezk 7:11,23; 8:17; 12:19; 45:9; Mc 6:12; Hab 1:9; 2:8,17

and you do not save?

3Why do you force me to look at injustice?1:3 Jb 4:8; Ps 5:5; Is 5:7

Why do you tolerate1:3 Lit observe, also in v. 13 wrongdoing?

Oppression and violence are right in front of me.

Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.

4This is why the law is ineffective

and justice never emerges.

For the wicked restrict1:4 Jdg 20:43; Ps 22:12 the righteous;

therefore, justice1:4 Ex 23:6 comes out perverted.

God’s First Answer

5Look at the nations1:5 DSS, LXX, Syr read Look, you treacherous people1:5 Ps 2:1 and observe1:5 Gn 15:5 —

be utterly astounded!1:5 Gn 43:33; Ps 48:5; Ec 5:8

For I am doing something in your days

that you will not believe1:5 Gn 15:6

when you hear about it.1:5 Ac 13:41

6Look! I am raising up1:6 Ru 4:5 the Chaldeans,1:6 = the Babylonians

that bitter,1:6 Jdg 18:25 impetuous nation

that marches across the earth’s open spaces

to seize territories not its own.

7They are fierce1:7 Sg 6:4,10 and terrifying;

their views of justice and sovereignty

stem from themselves.

8Their horses are swifter1:8 2Sm 1:23 than leopards1:8 Is 11:6; Jr 5:6; 13:23; Hs 13:7

and more fierce1:8 Or and quicker than wolves of the night.

Their horsemen charge ahead;

their horsemen come from distant lands.

They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.1:8 Dt 28:49

9All of them come to do violence;

their faces1:9 Gn 48:11 are set in determination.1:9 Hb obscure

They gather1:9 Dt 11:14 prisoners like sand.1:9 Jos 11:4

10They mock1:10 2Kg 2:23 kings,

and rulers are a joke to them.

They laugh1:10 2Ch 30:10 at every fortress

and build siege ramps to capture1:10 Nm 21:32 it.

11Then they sweep1:11 Is 8:8 by like the wind

and pass through.

They are guilty;1:11 Or wind, and transgress and incur guilt their strength is their god.

Habakkuk’s Second Prayer

12Are you not from eternity, Lord my God?1:12 1Ch 29:10; Ps 90:2; 93:2; 103:17; Mc 5:2

My Holy One,1:12 Is 1:4 you1:12 Alt Hb tradition reads we will not die.

Lord, you appointed them to execute judgment;

my Rock,1:12 Dt 32:4; Ps 18:2 you destined them to punish us.

13Your eyes1:13 2Ch 6:20; 16:9 are too pure1:13 Ex 25:11; Ps 12:6; 19:9; 51:10; Pr 22:11; Ezk 36:25 to look on evil,

and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.

So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous?1:13 Jdg 9:23

Why are you silent

while one1:13 = Babylon who is wicked swallows up

one1:13 = Judah who is more righteous than himself?

14You have made mankind

like the fish of the sea,1:14 Ec 9:12

like marine creatures that have no ruler.

15The Chaldeans pull them all up with a hook,

catch them in their dragnet,1:15 2Kg 19:28; 2Ch 33:11; Is 37:29; Jr 16:16; Ezk 19:4,9; 29:4; 38:4; Am 4:2

and gather them in their fishing net;

that is why they are glad and rejoice.

16That is why they sacrifice to their dragnet

and burn incense to their fishing net,

for by these things their portion is rich

and their food plentiful.1:16 Dt 8:17; Is 10:13; 37:24–25

17Will they therefore empty their net

and continually slaughter nations without mercy?

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