Habakkuk · Bible in Basic English
Habakkuk 1 Bible in Basic English
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1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
1 LA carga que vió Habacuc profeta.
1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
2 ¿Hasta cuándo, oh Jehová, clamaré, y no oirás; [y] daré voces á ti á causa de la violencia, y no salvarás?
2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
3 ¿Por qué me haces ver iniquidad, y haces que mire molestia, y saco y violencia delante de mí, habiendo además quien levante pleito y contienda?
3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
4 Por lo cual la ley es debilitada, y el juicio no sale verdadero: por cuanto el impío asedia al justo, por eso sale torcido el juicio.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
5 See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.
5 Mirad en las gentes, y ved, y maravillaos pasmosamente; porque obra será hecha en vuestros días, que aun cuando se os contare, no la creeréis.
5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you.
6 For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
6 Porque he aquí, yo levanto los Caldeos, gente amarga y presurosa, que camina por la anchura de la tierra para poseer las habitaciones ajenas.
6 For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
7 Espantosa es y terrible: de ella misma saldrá su derecho y su grandeza.
7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
8 Y serán sus caballos más ligeros que tigres, y más agudos que lobos de tarde; y sus jinetes se multiplicarán: vendrán de lejos sus caballeros, y volarán como águilas que se apresuran á la comida.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
9 They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
9 Toda ella vendrá á la presa: delante de sus caras viento solano; y juntará cautivos como arena.
9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
10 Y escarnecerá de los reyes, y de los príncipes hará burla: reiráse de toda fortaleza, y amontonará polvo, y la tomará.
10 Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.
11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
11 Luego mudará espíritu, y pasará adelante, y ofenderá [atribuyendo] esta su potencia á su dios.
11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
12 Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
12 ¿No eres tú desde el principio, oh Jehová, Dios mío, Santo mío? No moriremos. Oh Jehová, para juicio lo pusiste; y tú, oh Roca, lo fundaste para castigar.
12 Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
13 Muy limpio eres de ojos para ver el mal, ni puedes ver el agravio: ¿por qué ves los menospreciadores, y callas cuando destruye el impío al más justo que él,
13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
14 Y haces que sean los hombres como los peces de la mar, como reptiles que no tienen señor?
14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15 He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
15 Sacará á todos con anzuelo, cogerálos con su red, y juntarálos en su aljerife: por lo cual se holgará y hará alegrías.
15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
16 For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
16 Por esto hará sacrificios á su red, y ofrecerá sahumerios á su aljerife: porque con ellos engordó su porción, y engrasó su comida.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
17 ¿Vaciará por eso su red, ó tendrá piedad de matar gentes continuamente?
17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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Habakkuk
The prophet who received the burden of his book in a vision.
Cited in the guide: Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 3:1
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Nahum 1:1; Isaiah 22:1
- 2 Psalm 22:1–2; Psalm 13:1–2; Lamentations 3:8; Jeremiah 14:9; Psalm 94:3
- 3 Psalm 55:9–11; Jeremiah 9:2–6; Micah 7:1–4; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Jeremiah 20:8
- 4 Psalm 94:20–21; Isaiah 1:21–23; Psalm 119:126; Job 21:7; Ezekiel 9:9
- 5 Acts 13:40–41; Isaiah 29:14; Lamentations 4:12; Jeremiah 5:12–13; Jeremiah 9:25–26
- 6 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Chronicles 36:6; Jeremiah 5:15; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Jeremiah 4:6
- 7 Jeremiah 39:5–9; Jeremiah 52:9–11; Isaiah 18:7; Deuteronomy 5:27; Deuteronomy 5:19
- 8 Jeremiah 4:13; Zephaniah 3:3; Deuteronomy 28:49; Hosea 8:1; Ezekiel 17:3
- 9 Jeremiah 25:9; Psalm 139:18; Job 29:18; Habakkuk 2:5–13; Judges 7:12
- 10 2 Chronicles 36:6; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 32:24; Isaiah 14:16; Jeremiah 33:4
- 11 Daniel 5:20; Daniel 4:30–34; Daniel 5:3–4; Jeremiah 4:11–12
- 12 Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 90:2; Deuteronomy 33:27; Jeremiah 46:28; Jeremiah 30:11
- 13 Psalm 5:4–5; Psalm 34:15–16; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Habakkuk 1:3–4; Proverbs 31:8–9
- 15 Amos 4:2; Jeremiah 16:16; Psalm 10:9; John 21:6–11; Ezekiel 35:15
- 16 Daniel 4:30; Habakkuk 1:11; Ezekiel 28:3; Deuteronomy 8:17; Isaiah 37:24
- 17 Isaiah 14:6; Jeremiah 25:9–26; Ezekiel 25:1–17; Jeremiah 52:1–34; Habakkuk 2:17
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