§1.1Τ0 λῆμμα ὃ εἶδεν Ἁμβακοὺμ ὁ προφήτης.
The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
§1.2Ἕως τίνος, Κύριε, κράξομαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ εἰσακούσῃς;
How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and you will not hear?
βοήσομαι πρὸς σὲ ἀδικούμενος, καὶ οὐ σώσεις;
I will shout to you, being wronged, and will you not save?
§1.3ἵνα τί ἔδειξάς μοι κόπους καὶ πόνους ἐπιβλέπειν, ταλαιπαωρίαν καὶ ἀσέβειαυ;
Why did you show me labors and cause me to look upon troubles, misery, and impiety?
ἐξ ἐναντίας μου γέγονεν κρίσις, καὶ ὁ κριτὴς λαμβάνει·
Judgment has arisen before me, and the judge receives bribes.
§1.4διὰ τοῦτο διεσκέδασται νόμος, καὶ οὐ διεξάγεται εἰς τέλος κρίμα, ὅτι ἀσεβὴς καταδυναστεύει τὸν δίκαιον· ἕνεκεν τούτου ἐξελεύσεται τὸ κρίμα διεστραμμένον.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment is never brought to an end, because the ungodly oppresses the righteous; therefore judgment will go forth perverted.
§1.5ἴδετε, οἱ καταφρονηταί, καὶ ἐπιβλέψατε, καὶ θαυμάσατε θαυμάσια καὶ ἀφανίσθητε· διότιδιότι ἔργον ἐγὼ ἐργάζομαι ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ὑμῶν ὃ οὐ μὴ πιστεύσητε ἐάν τις ἐκδιηγῆται.
Behold, you scoffers, and look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish away; for I am working a work in your days which you will by no means believe if anyone describes it.
§1.6διότι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξεγείρω τοὺς Χαλδαίους, τὸ ἔθνος τὸ πικρὸν καὶ τὸ ταχινόν, τὸ πορευόμενον ἐπὶ τὰ πλάτη τῆς γῆς τοῦ κατακληρονομῆσαι σκηνώματα οὐκ αὐτοῦ·
For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and swift nation, which marches through the breadth of the earth to inherit tents not its own.
§1.7φοβερὸς καὶ ἐπιφανής ἐστιν, ἐξ αὐτοῦ τὸ κρίμα αὐτοῦ ἔσται, καὶ τὸ λῆμμα αὐτοῦ ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἐξελεύσεται·
He is terrible and prominent; his judgment shall proceed from himself, and his oracle shall go forth from himself.
§1.8καὶ ἐξαλοῦνται ὑπὲρ παρδάλεις οἱ ἵπποι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὀξύτεροι ὑπὲρ τοὺς λύκους τῆς Ἀραβίας· καὶ ἐξιππάσονται οἱ ἱππεῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁρμήσουσιν μακρόθεν, καὶ πετασθήσονται ὡς ἀετὸς πρόθυμος εἰς τὸ φαγεῖν.
And his horses shall leap swifter than leopards, and are sharper than the wolves of Arabia; and his horsemen shall ride abroad and shall rush from afar, and they shall fly as an eagle eager to eat.
§1.9συντέλεια εἰς ἀσεβεῖς ἥξει, ἀνθεστηκότας προσώποις αὐτῶν ἐξ ἐναντίας, καὶ συνάξει ὡς ἄμμον αἰχμαλωσίαν.
Destruction shall come upon the ungodly, resisting them face to face, and he shall gather the captivity as sand.
§1.10καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν βασιλεῦσιν ἐντρυφήσει καὶ τύραννοι παίγνια αὐτοῦ, καὶ αὐτὸς εἰς πᾶν ὀχύρωμα ἐμπαίξεται, καὶ βαλεῖ χῶμα καὶ κρατήσει αὐτοῦ.
And he shall scoff at kings, and rulers are his playthings, and he shall mock at every stronghold, and shall cast up a mound and take it.
§1.11τότε μεταβαλεῖ τὸ πνεῦμα, καὶ διελεύσεται καὶ ἐξιλάσεται· αὕτη ἡ ἰσχὺς τῷ θεῷ μου.
Then his spirit shall change, and he shall pass through, and make atonement; this strength belongs to my god.
§1.12Οὐχὶ σὺ ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς.
Are you not from the beginning, O Lord, my holy God?
Κύριε ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἅγιός μου καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνωμεν.
And we shall by no means die.
Κύριε, εἰς κρίμα τέταχας αὐτό· καὶ ἔπλασέν με τοῦ ἐλέγχειν παιδείαν αὐτοῦ.
O Lord, you have ordained him for judgment; and he formed me to reprove his instruction.
§1.13καθαρὸς ὀφθαλμὸς τοῦ μὴ ὁρᾷν πονηρὰ καὶ ἐπιβλέπειν ἐπὶ πόνους ὀδύνης· ἴνα τί ἐπιβλέπεις ἐπὶ καταφρονοῦντα;
Your eye is pure, so as not to behold evil, and to look upon painful labors; why do you look upon the scoffer?
παρασιωπήσῃ ἐν τῷ καταπίνειν ἀσεβῆ τὸν δίκαιον;
Will you keep silence when the ungodly swallows up the righteous?
§1.14καὶ ποιήσεις τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ὡς τοὺς ἰχθύας τῆς θαλάσσης, καὶ ὡς τὰ ἑρπετὰ τὰ οὐκ ἔχοντα ἡγούμενον;
And will you make men as the fish of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler?
§1.15συντέλειαν ἐν ἀγκίστρῳ ἀνέσπασεν, καὶ εἵλκυσεν αὐτὸν ἐν ἀμφιβλήστρῳ, καὶ συνήγαγεν αὐτὸν ἐν ταῖς σαγήναις αὐτοῦ.
He drew up all of them with a hook, and dragged him in a net, and gathered him in his drag-nets.
§1.16ἕνεκεν τούτου εὐφρανθήσεται καὶ χαρήσεται ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ· ἕνεκεν τούτου θύσει τῇ σαγήνῃ αὐτοῦ καὶ θυμιάσει τῷ ἀμφιβλήστρῳ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐλίπανεν μερίδα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ βρώματα αὐτοῦ ἐκλεκτά·
Therefore his heart shall rejoice and be glad; therefore he will sacrifice to his drag-net, and burn incense to his net, because by them he made his portion fat and his food choice.
§1.17διὰ τοῦτο ἀμφιβαλεῖ τὸ ἀμφίβληστρον αὐτοῦ, καὶ διὰ παντὸς ἀποκτενειν ἔθνη οὐ φείσεται.
Therefore he will cast his net, and will not spare to slay nations continually.