Habacuque 2

1 I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

2 Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it. 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay. 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. 5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol;*2:5 Sheol is the place of the dead. he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.

6 Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’ 7 Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim? 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! 13 Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies! 16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. 17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it. 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"

Te Whakautu a Ihowā ki a Hapakuku

1 Ka tū ahau ki tāku mahi tiaki,

ka whakanoho i ahau ki te taumaihi.

Ka tūtei atu, ka titiro atu, ko te aha e kīia mai e ia ki ahau,

ā, ko te aha e whakahokia e ahau ina rīria tāku.

2 Nā, ka utua mai tāku e Ihowā, i kī mai ia:

"Tuhituhia te kite;

kia mārama rawa ki ngā papa,

kia tere ai te kaikōrero.

3 Mō tōna wā anō hoki i whakaritea ai te kite,

ā, e whawhai ana ia ki te mutunga, ā, e kore e teka.

Ahakoa roa ia, tatari atu ki a ia;

nō te mea he pono rawa ka puta mai;

e kore e whakaroa.

4 "Nanā, kei te whakakake tōna ngākau,

kāhore e tika i roto i a ia;

mā tōna whakapono ia ka ora ai te tangata tika.

5 Āe rā hoki, he mea nanakia te wāina,

he tangata whakakake, kāhore e āta noho i te kāinga.

Ko tōna hiahia whakanuia ake e ia ānō ko te rēinga,

kei te mate tōna rite, e kore anō e ngata.

E tāwhiua ana hoki e ia ngā iwi katoa ki a ia,

e taupuatia ana ngā tāngata katoa ki a ia."

Ngā Auraki o te Hunga Kino

6 "E kore ianei e whakahuatia e ēnei katoa he kupu whakatauki mōna, he whakapeka taunu anō mōna, ā, ka mea,

‘Auē te mate mō te tangata e āmi ana i te mea ehara nei i a ia!

He pēhea rā te roa mō te tangata anō e haupū ake ana

i te taunaha ki runga ki a ia?’

7 E kore ianei e maranga ohorere ake ngā kaingau mōu?

E kore ianei e ara ngā kaiwhakatoi i a koe,

ā, ka waiho koe hei taonga pārau mā rātou?

8 Nō te mea he maha ngā iwi i pāhuatia e koe,

nā, ka pāhuatia koe e ngā toenga katoa o ngā iwi –

he mea hoki mō te toto o ngā tāngata, mō te mahi nanakia ki te whenua,

ki te pā, ā, ki ngā tāngata katoa anō i reira.

9 "Auē te mate mō te tangata,

he kino nei te apo i apo taonga ai ia mō tōna whare,

he mea kia tiketike ake ai tōna kōhanga,

kia ora ai ia i te kaha o te kino!"

10 Kua takoto i a koe he whakamā mō tōu whare

i tāu hātepenga atu i ngā iwi maha;

kua hara anō ki tōu wairua ake.

11 Ka karanga hoki te kōhatu i roto i te pakitara,

ka whakahoki kupu anō te kurupae i roto i ngā rākau.

12 "Auē te mate mō te tangata e hanga ana i te pā ki te toto,

e whakaū ana hoki i te pā ki te hē!"

13 He teka ianei nā Ihowā o ngā mano

i māuiui ai ngā tāngata i roto i te ahi,

i ruha ai ngā iwi i te kāhore noa iho?

14 Ka kapi hoki te whenua

i te mātauranga ki te korōria o Ihowā,

ānō ko ngā wai e taupoki ana i te moana.

15 "Auē te mate mō te tangata e mea ana i tōna hoa kia inu,

e āpiti atu ana i te mea nanakia ki tērā, e whakahaurangi ana hoki i a ia,

kia titiro ai koe ki a rātou e takoto tahanga ana!"

16 E kī ana koe i te whakamā, kāhore i te korōria.

E inu hoki koe, kia waiho ai koe, ānō he mea kokotikore.

Ka anga mai ki a koe te kapu a tō Ihowā ringa matau,

ā, he whakamā whakarihariha ka tau ki runga ki tōu korōria.

17 Ko te mahi nanakia hoki ki Repanōna hei taupoki mōu,

me te whakangaromanga o ngā kararehe i wehingia rā e rātou –

mō te toto hoki o ngā tāngata,

mō te mahi nanakia ki te whenua,

ki te pā, ki ngā tāngata anō o reira.

18 "He aha te pai o te whakapakoko

i whaoa ai e tōna kaihanga –

o te whakapakoko whakarewa anō, o te kaiwhakaako ki te teka?

I whakawhirinaki ai tōna kaihanga ki tāna mahi,

ka mahi i ngā whakapakoko wahangū.

19 Auē te mate mō te tangata e mea ana ki te rākau, ‘Maranga!’

Ki te kōhatu reokore, ‘E ara!’

Mā tēnei koia e whakaako?

Nanā, kua oti te kōura, te hiriwa, te whakapiri ki a ia,

ā, kāhore rawa he wairua i roto.

20 Kei tōna temepara tapu ia a Ihowā.

Whakarongoa, e te whenua katoa, i tōna aroaro!"