19THERE NOT [IS] RELIEF FOR FRACTURE YOUR [IS] SEVERE WOUND YOUR ALL [THOSE WHO] HEAR <OF> REPORT YOUR THEY STRIKE A PALM ON YOU FOR OVER WHOM? NOT HAS IT PASSED EVIL YOUR CONTINUALLY 19There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?
1THE ORACLE WHICH HE SAW HABAKKUK THE PROPHET Habakkuk’s First Complaint 1This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:
2UNTIL WHEN? O YAHWEH HAVE I CRIED FOR HELP AND NOT YOU WILL HEAR I CRY OUT TO YOU VIOLENCE AND NOT YOU SAVE 2How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
3<TO> WHY? DO YOU MAKE SEE ME WICKEDNESS AND MISCHIEF DO YOU LOOK AT? AND DEVASTATION AND VIOLENCE [ARE] TO BEFORE ME AND IT HAS BEEN STRIFE AND CONTENTION IT ARISES 3Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
4THERE- -FORE IT GROWS NUMB [THE] LAW AND NOT IT COMES FORTH TO PERPETUITY JUSTICE FOR [THE] WICKED [IS] SURROUNDING <OBJ.> THE RIGHTEOUS [PERSON] THERE- -FORE IT COMES FORTH JUSTICE PERVERTED 4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
5SEE AMONG THE NATIONS AND LOOK AND BE ASTOUNDED BE ASTONISHED FOR A DEED [I AM] ABOUT TO DO IN DAYS YOUR [WHICH] NOT YOU WILL BELIEVE IF IT WILL BE RECOUNTED The LORD’s Answer 5“Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded!*NoteCloseLXX Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.*NoteCloseCited in Acts 13:41
6FOR HERE I [AM] ABOUT TO RAISE UP <OBJ.> THE CHALDEANS THE NATION <THE> BITTER AND <THE> IMPETUOUS WHICH GOES TO [THE] EXPANSES OF [THE] EARTH TO TAKE POSSESSION OF DWELLINGS [WHICH] NOT [BELONG] TO IT 6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans*NoteCloseThat is, the Babylonians — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
7[IS] TERRIFYING AND AWESOME IT FROM ITSELF JUSTICE ITS AND DIGNITY ITS IT COMES FORTH 7They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.
8AND THEY ARE SWIFT MORE THAN LEOPARDS HORSES ITS AND THEY ARE KEEN MORE THAN WOLVES OF [THE] EVENING AND THEY PAW [THE] GROUND WARHORSES ITS AND HORSEMEN ITS FROM A DISTANCE THEY COME THEY FLY LIKE AN EAGLE MAKING HASTE TO DEVOUR 8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
9ALL OF IT FOR VIOLENCE IT COMES [THE] TOTALITY OF FACES THEIR [IS] EAST -WARD AND IT GATHERED LIKE <THE> SAND CAPTIVE[S] 9All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
10AND IT <IN> <THE> KINGS IT DERIDES AND RULERS [ARE] LAUGHTER TO IT IT AT EVERY FORTRESS IT LAUGHS AND IT HEAPED UP EARTH AND IT CAPTURED IT 10They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.
11THEN IT SWEPT ON A WIND AND IT PASSED ON AND HE IS GUILTY [THE ONE] WHO STRENGTH HIS [BECOMES] <INTO> GOD HIS 11Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”
12¿ NOT [ARE] YOU FROM ANTIQUITY O YAHWEH GOD MY HOLY [ONE] MY NOT WE WILL DIE O YAHWEH TO JUDGMENT YOU HAVE APPOINTED IT AND O ROCK TO REPROVE YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED IT Habakkuk’s Second Complaint (Psalm 11:1–7) 12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
13[YOU ARE TOO] PURE OF EYES FOR SEEING EVIL AND TO LOOK TO MISCHIEF NOT YOU ARE ABLE <TO> WHY? DO YOU LOOK AT TREACHEROUS [PEOPLE] ARE YOU SILENT? WHEN SWALLOWS UP A WICKED [PERSON] A [PERSON] RIGHTEOUS MORE THAN HIM 13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
14AND YOU HAVE MADE HUMANKIND LIKE [THE] FISH OF THE SEA LIKE CREEPING THING[S] [WHICH] NOT A RULER [IS] OVER IT 14You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler
15ALL OF IT WITH A FISH HOOK HE BRINGS UP HE DRAGS AWAY IT IN NET HIS AND HE GATHERS IT IN FISHING NET HIS THERE- -FORE HE REJOICES AND HE MAY BE GLAD 15The foe pulls all of them up*NoteCloseLiterally He pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
16THERE- -FORE HE SACRIFICES TO NET HIS SO HE MAY MAKE SMOKE TO FISHING NET HIS FOR BY THEM [IS] FAT PORTION HIS AND FOOD HIS [IS] FAT 16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
17¿ THERE- FORE WILL HE EMPTY NET HIS AND CONTINUALLY TO KILL NATIONS NOT WILL HE SPARE? 17Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?