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이것은 여호와께서 예언자 하박국에게 환상으로 보여 주신 말씀이다.

하박국의 불만스런 질문

여호와여, 내가 언제까지 부르짖어야 주께서 들어주시겠습니까? 내가 “횡포!” 라고 외쳐도 주께서 구해 주시지 않으십니다.

어째서 나에게 불의를 보게 하시며 악을 목격하게 하십니까? 파괴와 폭력이 내 앞에 있고 다툼과 분쟁이 곳곳에 있습니다.

그래서 법이 무시되고 정의가 실현되지 못하고 있습니다. 악인이 의로운 자를 둘러싸고 있으므로 부정이 판을 치게 되었습니다.

여호와의 대답

여호와께서 말씀하셨다. “너희는 너희 주변 나라들을 지켜 보아라. 그러면 너희가 놀라게 될 것이다. 내가 너희 시대에 한 일을 행하겠다. 너희가 들어도 믿지 않을 것이다.

내가 사납고 성급한 백성 [a]바빌로니아 사람을 일으키겠다. 그들은 온 세상을 휩쓸고 다니면서 남의 땅을 마구 점령하는 자들이다.

그들은 두렵고 무서우며 [b]자존심이 강해서 그 누구의 간섭도 받지 않는다.

그들의 말은 표범보다 빠르고 저녁때의 이리보다 사나우며 그들의 기병들은 먼 땅에서도 날쌔게 달려오니 마치 먹이를 덮치려고 쏜살같이 나는 독수리와도 같다.

그들은 닥치는 대로 무자비하게 치고 전진하며 모래알처럼 많은 사람을 생포하고

10 왕들을 멸시하며 그 신하들을 조소하고 요새화된 성도 우습게 보고 흙 무더기를 쌓아 올려 그것을 점령하는 자들이다.

11 그들이 바람처럼 휩쓸고 지나가지만 자기들의 힘을 신으로 삼고 있기 때문에 죄를 면할 수 없을 것이다.”

하박국의 두 번째 질문

12 여호와여, 나의 거룩하신 하나님이시여, 주는 영원 전부터 계시지 않으십니까? 우리는 죽지 않을 것입니다. 여호와여, 주께서 심판하시기 위해 바빌로니아 사람들을 택하셨습니다. 반석이 되시는 주여, 주께서 우리를 징계하시려고 그들을 세우셨습니다.

13 주의 눈은 너무 정결하셔서 악을 보지 못하시며 비행을 용납하실 수 없습니다. 그런데 어째서 거짓되게 행하는 자를 보고만 계십니까? 악인이 자기보다 의로운 자를 삼키는데 주는 어째서 침묵만 지키고 계십니까?

14 어째서 주는 사람을 바다의 고기나, 다스리는 자가 없는 곤충처럼 대하십니까?

15 바빌로니아 사람들이 낚시로 사람을 잡아 그물로 끌어모아 놓고 기뻐하고 즐거워합니다.

16 그들은 그 그물로 호의 호식하며 살기 때문에 그 그물에 제사를 드리고 분향합니다.

17 그들이 [c]칼로 계속 여러 민족을 무자비하게 죽여도 좋단 말입니까?

Footnotes

  1. 1:6 원문에는 ‘갈대아’
  2. 1:7 또는 ‘심판과 위령이 자기로 말미암으며’
  3. 1:17 원문에는 ‘그물을 떨고는’

The prophecy(A) that Habakkuk the prophet received.

Habakkuk’s Complaint

How long,(B) Lord, must I call for help,
    but you do not listen?(C)
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
    but you do not save?(D)
Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate(E) wrongdoing?(F)
Destruction and violence(G) are before me;
    there is strife,(H) and conflict abounds.
Therefore the law(I) is paralyzed,
    and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
    so that justice(J) is perverted.(K)

The Lord’s Answer

“Look at the nations and watch—
    and be utterly amazed.(L)
For I am going to do something in your days
    that you would not believe,
    even if you were told.(M)
I am raising up the Babylonians,[a](N)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth(O)
    to seize dwellings not their own.(P)
They are a feared and dreaded people;(Q)
    they are a law to themselves
    and promote their own honor.
Their horses are swifter(R) than leopards,
    fiercer than wolves(S) at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
    their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
    they all come intent on violence.
Their hordes[b] advance like a desert wind
    and gather prisoners(T) like sand.
10 They mock kings
    and scoff at rulers.(U)
They laugh at all fortified cities;
    by building earthen ramps(V) they capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind(W) and go on—
    guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”(X)

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

12 Lord, are you not from everlasting?(Y)
    My God, my Holy One,(Z) you[c] will never die.(AA)
You, Lord, have appointed(AB) them to execute judgment;
    you, my Rock,(AC) have ordained them to punish.
13 Your eyes are too pure(AD) to look on evil;
    you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.(AE)
Why then do you tolerate(AF) the treacherous?(AG)
    Why are you silent while the wicked
    swallow up those more righteous than themselves?(AH)
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked(AI) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,(AJ)
    he catches them in his net,(AK)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and burns incense(AL) to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
    and enjoys the choicest food.
17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
    destroying nations without mercy?(AM)

Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans
  2. Habakkuk 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  3. Habakkuk 1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we

The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12 Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?