Abacuc 1

NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Oraculum, quod vidit Habacuc propheta.	1 The charge that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision.
2 Usquequo, Domine, clamabo, et non exaudis? Vociferabor ad te: “ Violentia! ”, et non salvas?	2 How long, Yahweh, am I to cry for help while you wil not listen; to cry, 'Violence!' in your ear while youwil not save?
3 Quare ostendisti mihi iniquitatem et malitiam vides? Et vastitas et violentia est coram me, et facta est contentio, et iurgium exoritur.	3 Why do you make me see wrong-doing, why do you countenance oppression? Plundering and violenceconfront me, contention and discord flourish.
4 Propter hoc languet lex, et non pervenit usque ad finem iudicium. Quia impius praevalet adversus iustum, propterea egreditur iudicium perversum.	4 And so the law loses its grip and justice never emerges, since the wicked outwits the upright and sojustice comes out perverted.
5 “ Aspicite in gentibus et videte, admiramini et obstupescite, quia opus facio in diebus vestris, quod nemo credet, cum narrabitur.	5 Cast your eyes over the nations, look, and be amazed, astounded. For I am doing something in yourown days which you wil not believe if you are told of it.
6 Quia ecce ego suscitabo Chaldaeos, gentem amaram et velocem, ambulantem super latitudinem terrae, ut possideat tabernacula non sua.	6 For look, I am stirring up the Chaldaeans, that fierce and fiery nation who march miles across country toseize the homes of others.
7 Horribilis et terribilis est, ex semetipsa iudicium eius et maiestas eius egredietur.	7 They are dreadful and awesome, a law and authority to themselves.
8 Leviores pardis equi eius et saeviores lupis deserti; et accurrunt equites eius: equites namque eius de longe venient, volabunt quasi aquila festinans ad comedendum.	8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at night; their horsemen gal op on, theirhorsemen advance from afar, swooping like an eagle anxious to feed.
9 Omnes, ut violentiam faciant, venient, omnes facies eorum ventus urens; et congregabunt quasi arenam captivos.	9 They are al bent on violence, their faces scorching like an east wind; they scoop up prisoners likesand.
10 Et ipsa reges subsannabit, tyrannis illudet; ipsa super omnem munitionem ridebit et comportabit aggerem et capiet eam.	10 They scoff at kings, they despise princes. They make light of al fortresses: they heap up earth andtake them.
11 Tunc ultra progrediens quasi ventus pertransibit et constituet fortitudinem suam deum suum ”.	11 Then the wind changes and is gone . . . Guilty is he who makes his strength his god.
12 Numquid non tu a principio, Domine, Deus meus, sanctus meus, qui non morieris? Domine, ad iudicium posuisti eam; petra mea, ad corripiendum fundasti eam.	12 Surely you, Yahweh, are from ancient times, my holy God, who never dies! Yahweh, you haveappointed him to execute judgement; O Rock, you have set him firm to punish.
13 Mundi sunt oculi tui, ne videas malum; et respicere ad iniquitatem non poteris. Quare respicis super inique agentes et taces, devorante impio iustiorem se?	13 Your eyes are too pure to rest on evil, you cannot look on at oppression. Why do you look on at thosewho play the traitor, why say nothing while the wicked swal ows someone more upright than himself?
14 Fecisti homines quasi pisces maris, quasi reptile non habens principem super se.	14 Why treat people like fish of the sea, like gliding creatures who have no leader?
15 Omnes in hamo sublevat, trahit eos in sagena sua et congregat in rete suo; super hoc laetatur et exsultat.	15 They haul them al up on their hook, they catch them in their net, they sweep them up in their dragnetand then make merry and rejoice.
16 Propterea immolat sagenae suae et sacrificat reti suo, quia in ipsis incrassata est portio eius, et cibus eius pinguis.	16 And so they offer a sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet, for by these they get a richliving and live off the fat of the land.
17 Propter hoc ergo evaginabit gladium suum semper, ut interficiat gentes sine misericordia?	17 Are they to go on emptying their net unceasingly, slaughtering the nations without pity?