Habacuc 1

1Carga que vio Habacuc profeta.

2¿Hasta cuándo, Yahvé, he de clamar sin que Tú me escuches? ¿Hasta cuándo daré voces a Ti por la violencia sin que me salves?

3¿Por qué me haces ver la iniquidad y contemplas lo que sufro? Devastación y violencia están ante mis ojos; hay pleitos y surgen contiendas.

4Por eso se embota la ley, y nunca sale sentencia justa; el inicuo rodea al justo, y así sale torcido el derecho.

5Mirad a las naciones y observad; admiraos y llenaos de espanto; pues voy a hacer una obra en vuestros días, que no creeríais si alguien la contase.

6Pues he aquí que suscitaré a los caldeos, ese pueblo cruel e impetuoso que recorre las anchuras de la tierra, para ocupar moradas que no son suyas.

7Es horrible y espantoso, y crea él mismo su derecho y su grandeza.

8Sus caballos son más ligeros que el leopardo y más feroces que el lobo nocturno. Se lanza la caballería, sus jinetes llegan de lejos; vuelan cual águila que se da prisa para devorar.

9Vienen todos ellos para hacer violencia; viento abrasador va delante de ellos; toman cautivos tan numerosos como la arena.

10(Es un pueblo) que se burla de los reyes, y se ríe de los príncipes; se mofa de todas las fortalezas, alza terraplenes y las toma.

11Luego, como el huracán, cambia de rumbo y pasa, y se acarrea culpa (imputando) su fuerza a su dios.

12¿No eres Tú, oh Yahvé, desde la eternidad, el Dios mío, mi Santo? No moriremos, porque Tú, Yahvé, hiciste (aquel pueblo) para ejercer tu justicia; Tú, oh Roca, le has establecido para aplicar castigos.

13Tus ojos son demasiado puros para mirar el mal, y no puedes ver la injusticia. ¿Por qué, pues, soportas a los pérfidos y callas cuando el inicuo devora al que es más justo que él?

14¿Por qué hiciste a los hombres como los peces del mar, como los reptiles que no tienen quien los gobierne?

15A todos ellos los pesca aquel con el anzuelo; los arrastra con su red, y los reúne en su barredera; por eso se goza y está alegre.

16Y por eso ofrece sacrificios a su red, e incienso a su barredera; pues gracias a ellos es pingüe su porción, y suculenta su comida.

17¿Es posible que siga vaciando su red, y continúe destrozando sin piedad a los pueblos?

1Onus quod vidit Habacuc propheta.

2[Usquequo, Domine, clamabo, et non exaudies? vociferabor ad te, vim patiens, et non salvabis?

3Quare ostendisti mihi iniquitatem et laborem, videre prædam et injustitiam contra me? Et factum est judicium, et contradictio potentior.

4Propter hoc lacerata est lex, et non pervenit usque ad finem judicium; quia impius prævalet adversus justum, propterea egreditur judicium perversum.

5Aspicite in gentibus, et videte; admiramini, et obstupescite: quia opus factum est in diebus vestris, quod nemo credet cum narrabitur.

6Quia ecce ego suscitabo Chaldæos, gentem amaram et velocem, ambulantem super latitudinem terræ, ut possideat tabernacula non sua.

7Horribilis et terribilis est: ex semetipsa judicium et onus ejus egredietur.

8Leviores pardis equi ejus, et velociores lupis vespertinis: et diffundentur equites ejus: equites namque ejus de longe venient; volabunt quasi aquila festinans ad comedendum.

9Omnes ad prædam venient, facies eorum ventus urens; et congregabit quasi arenam captivitatem.

10Et ipse de regibus triumphabit, et tyranni ridiculi ejus erunt; ipse super omnem munitionem ridebit, et comportabit aggerem, et capiet eam.

11Tunc mutabitur spiritus, et pertransibit, et corruet: hæc est fortitudo ejus dei sui.]

12[Numquid non tu a principio, Domine, Deus meus, sancte meus, et non moriemur? Domine, in judicium posuisti eum, et fortem, ut corriperes, fundasti eum.

13Mundi sunt oculi tui, ne videas malum, et respicere ad iniquitatem non poteris. Quare respicis super iniqua agentes, et taces devorante impio justiorem se?

14Et facies homines quasi pisces maris, et quasi reptile non habens principem.

15Totum in hamo sublevavit, traxit illud in sagena sua, et congregavit in rete suum. Super hoc lætabitur, et exsultabit.

16Propterea immolabit sagenæ suæ, et sacrificabit reti suo, quia in ipsis incrassata est pars ejus, et cibus ejus electus.

17Propter hoc ergo expandit sagenam suam, et semper interficere gentes non parcet.]

1The burden that Habacuc the prophet saw.

2How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?

3Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more powerful.

4Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to the end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

5Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.

6For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own.

7They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.

8Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat.

9They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.

10And their prince shall triumph over kings, and princes shall be his laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take it.

11Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god.

12Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.

13Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

14And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.

15He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.

16Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty.

17For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.