Livre de Habacuc 1

JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 L'oracle que reçut en vision Habaquq le prophète.	1 The burden that Habacuc the prophet saw.
2 Jusques à quand, Yahvé, appellerai-je au secours sans que tu écoutes, crierai-je vers toi: "A laviolence!" sans que tu sauves?	2 How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?
3 Pourquoi me fais-tu voir l'iniquité et regardes-tu l'oppression? Je ne vois que rapine et violence,c'est la dispute, et la discorde sévit!	3 Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more powerful.
4 Aussi la loi se meurt, plus jamais le droit ne paraît! Oui, l'impie traque le juste, aussi ne paraît plusqu'un droit fléchi!	4 Therefore 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.
5 Regardez parmi les peuples, voyez, soyez stupides et stupéfaits! Car j'accomplis de vos jours uneoeuvre que vous ne croiriez pas si on la racontait.	5 Behold 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.
6 Oui! voici que je suscite les Chaldéens, ce peuple farouche et fougueux, celui qui parcourt devastes étendues de pays pour s'emparer des demeures d'autrui.	6 For 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.
7 Il est terrible et redoutable, sa force fait son droit, sa grandeur!	7 They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.
8 Ses chevaux sont plus rapides que panthères, plus mordants que loups du soir; ses cavaliersbondissent, ses cavaliers arrivent de loin, ils volent comme l'aigle qui fond pour dévorer.	8 Their 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.
9 Tous arrivent pour le pillage, la face ardente comme un vent d'est; ils ramassent les captifs commedu sable!	9 They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.
10 Ce peuple se moque des rois, il tourne les princes en dérision. Il se rit de toutes forteresses: ilentasse de la terre et les prend!	10 And 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.
11 Puis le vent a tourné et s'en est allé... Criminel qui fait de sa force son Dieu!	11 Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god.
12 Dès les temps lointains n'es-tu pas Yahvé, mon Dieu, mon Saint, qui ne meurs pas? Tu l'avaisétabli, Yahvé, pour exercer le droit, tel un rocher, pour châtier, tu l'avais affermi!	12 Wast 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.
13 Tes yeux sont trop purs pour voir le mal, tu ne peux regarder l'oppression. Pourquoi regardes-tules gens perfides, gardes-tu le silence quand l'impie engloutit un plus juste que lui?	13 Thy 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?
14 Tu traites les humains comme les poissons de la mer, comme la gent qui frétille, sans maître!	14 And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.
15 Il les prend tous à l'hameçon, les tire avec son filet, il les ramasse avec son épervier, et le voilàdans la joie, dans l'allégresse!	15 He 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.
16 Aussi sacrifie-t-il à son filet, fait-il fumer des offrandes devant son épervier, car ils lui procurentde grasses portions et des mets plantureux.	16 Therefore 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.
17 Videra-t-il donc sans trêve son filet, massacrant les peuples sans pitié?	17 For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare continually to slay the nations.