Habakkuk · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Habakkuk 2 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Me pondré sobre mi torre de vigilante. Me plantaré en mi muro y observaré desde arriba para ver lo que Él me dice y qué responde a mi queja.
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 Y Yavé me respondió: Escribe la visión y escúlpela en tablillas, para que cualquiera la pueda leer con rapidez.
2 Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
3 Porque aún es visión para el tiempo señalado. Ella se apresura hacia la meta y no fallará. Aunque demore, espérala, porque ciertamente vendrá y no tardará.
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 Mira, aquel cuya alma no es recta está envanecido, pero el justo vivirá por su fe.
4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
5 Además, el vino traiciona al arrogante, de manera que no se queda en casa. Ensancha su apetito como el Seol, y es como la muerte que nunca está satisfecha. Además, reúne a todos los pueblos y apila a todas las naciones para él.
5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
6 ¿Todos ellos no levantarán refranes y sarcasmos contra él? Dirán: ¡Ay del que multiplica lo que no es suyo! ¿Hasta cuándo acumula prenda tras prenda?
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 ¿Sus acreedores no se levantarán de pronto? ¿No se despertarán los burladores, los que lo oprimen con violencia? Será objeto de su rapiña.
7 Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
8 Porque despojaste a muchas naciones, las demás naciones te despojarán, por causa de la sangre humana derramada y de la violencia hecha a la tierra, a la ciudad y a sus habitantes.
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 ¡Ay del que obtiene ganancia injusta para su casa y pone en alto su nido para escapar de la calamidad!
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 Tomaste consejo vergonzoso para tu casa, aniquilaste a muchos pueblos y pecaste contra tu vida.
10 You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
11 Por eso la piedra clamará desde el muro, y la viga del enmaderado le responderá.
11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
12 ¡Ay del que edifica la ciudad con derramamiento de sangre, y del que funda una ciudad con iniquidad!
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13 ¿No procede esto de Yavé de las huestes? Los pueblos trabajan para el fuego y las naciones se fatigan en vano.
13 Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
14 Porque la tierra será llena del conocimiento de la gloria de Yavé como las aguas cubren el mar.
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
15 ¡Ay del que da de beber a su prójimo, y le añade su veneno, y lo embriaga para recrearse en su desnudez!
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 Te llenaste de deshonra más que de honra. ¡Bebe tú también, y deja al descubierto tu prepucio! La copa de la mano derecha de Yavé se volverá contra ti, y lo fétido caerá sobre tu resplandor.
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 Porque te cubrirá la violencia hecha al Líbano, la matanza de las bestias aterrorizadas, la sangre humana derramada y la violencia hecha a la tierra, a la ciudad y a todos los que viven en ella.
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 ¿De qué sirve la escultura que talla el artífice, si es una imagen, un maestro de mentiras? ¿De qué sirve al artífice confiar en su obra, cuando hace ídolos mudos?
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 Ay del que dice al leño: ¡Despierta! Y a la piedra muda: ¡Levántate! ¿Podrá el ídolo enseñar? Ciertamente está recubierto de oro y plata, pero no hay espíritu en él.
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 Pero Yavé está en su santo Templo: ¡Calle delante de Él toda la tierra!
20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 21:8; Isaiah 62:6; 2 Samuel 18:24; Psalm 85:8; Psalm 73:16–17
- 2 Isaiah 30:8; Revelation 14:13; Revelation 1:18–19; Deuteronomy 31:22; Revelation 21:5–8
- 3 Psalm 27:14; Hebrews 10:36–37; Ezekiel 12:25; Lamentations 3:25–26; Psalm 102:13
- 4 Romans 1:17; Hebrews 10:38; Galatians 3:11–12; Galatians 2:16; John 3:36
- 5 Isaiah 5:11–12; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 27:20; Proverbs 31:4–5; Isaiah 2:11–12
- 6 Jeremiah 50:13; Jeremiah 29:22; Isaiah 14:4–19; Numbers 23:7; Job 20:15–29
- 7 Proverbs 29:1; Isaiah 13:16–18; Isaiah 48:14–15; Daniel 5:25–31; Isaiah 45:1–3
- 8 Isaiah 33:1; Habakkuk 2:17; Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 50:17–18; Jeremiah 50:28
- 9 Jeremiah 49:16; Jeremiah 22:13–19; Proverbs 18:11–12; 1 Kings 21:2–4; Obadiah 4
- 10 Nahum 1:14; 2 Kings 9:26; Numbers 16:38; 2 Kings 10:7; Jeremiah 36:31
- 11 Luke 19:40; Joshua 24:27; James 5:3–4; Job 31:38–40; Genesis 4:10
- 12 Micah 3:10; Nahum 3:1; Daniel 4:27–31; Jeremiah 22:13–17; Revelation 17:6
- 13 Jeremiah 51:58; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 50:11; Psalm 127:1–2; Malachi 1:4
- 14 Isaiah 11:9; Psalm 22:27; Psalm 72:19; Isaiah 6:3; Psalm 86:9
- 15 Jeremiah 51:7; Genesis 9:22; Revelation 18:3; Revelation 17:2; Hosea 7:5
- 16 Isaiah 47:3; Nahum 3:5–6; Revelation 18:6; Psalm 75:8; Hosea 7:5
- 17 Habakkuk 2:8; Zechariah 11:1; Psalm 55:23; Revelation 18:20–24; Proverbs 28:17
- 18 Jeremiah 10:8; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Isaiah 44:9–10; Zechariah 10:2; Jeremiah 2:27–28
- 19 Psalm 135:17; Jeremiah 10:4; Jeremiah 10:9; 1 Kings 18:26–29; Psalm 97:7
- 20 Zechariah 2:13; Zephaniah 1:7; Psalm 46:10; Psalm 11:4; Isaiah 6:1
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… Epistle to the Romans, "But now, without the law, has the righteousness of God been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; for the just shall live by faith." But this fact, that the just shall live by faith, had been previously announced by the prophets.
… into four divisions--prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance--and as each of these divisions has its own virtues, faith is among the parts of justice, and has the chief place with as many of us as know what that saying means, "The just shall live by faith." But if Faith is a goddess, I wonder why these keen lovers of a multitude …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And thus it is written, "The just lives by faith," for we do not as yet see our good, and must therefore live by faith; neither have we in ourselves power to live rightly, but can do so only if He who has given us faith to believe in His help do help us when we believe and pray.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
The faithful; because it is "by faith that the just shall live." For there is in the Church this order, some go before, others follow; and those who go before make themselves "an example" to those who follow; and those who follow imitate those who go before.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)