Habakkuk · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Habakkuk 2 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Επί της σκοπιάς μου θέλω σταθή και θέλω στηλωθή επί του πύργου, και θέλω αποσκοπεύει διά να ίδω τι θέλει λαλήσει προς εμέ και τι θέλω αποκριθή προς τον ελέγχοντά με.
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 Και απεκρίθη προς εμέ ο Κύριος και είπε, Γράψον την όρασιν και έκθεσον αυτήν επί πινακιδίων, ώστε τρέχων να αναγινώσκη τις αυτήν·
2 Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
3 διότι η όρασις μένει έτι εις ωρισμένον καιρόν, αλλ' εις το τέλος θέλει λαλήσει και δεν θέλει ψευσθή· αν και αργοπορή, πρόσμεινον αυτήν· διότι βεβαίως θέλει ελθεί, δεν θέλει βραδύνει.
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 Ιδού, η ψυχή αυτού επήρθη, δεν είναι ευθεία εν αυτώ· ο δε δίκαιος θέλει ζήσει διά της πίστεως αυτού.
4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
5 Και μάλιστα είναι προπετής εξ αιτίας του οίνου, ανήρ αλαζών, ουδέ ησυχάζει· όστις πλατύνει την ψυχήν αυτού ως άδης και είναι ως ο θάνατος και δεν χορταίνει, αλλά συνάγει εις εαυτόν πάντα τα έθνη και συλλαμβάνει εις εαυτόν πάντας τους λαούς.
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 Δεν θέλουσι λάβει πάντες ούτοι παραβολήν κατ' αυτού και παροιμίαν εμπαικτικήν εναντίον αυτού; και ειπεί, Ουαί εις τον πληθύνοντα το μη εαυτού· έως πότε; και εις τον επιβαρύνοντα εαυτόν με παχύν πηλόν.
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 Δεν θέλουσι σηκωθή εξαίφνης οι δάκνοντές σε και εξεγερθή οι ταλαιπωρούντές σε και θέλεις είσθαι προς αυτούς εις διαρπαγήν;
7 Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
8 Επειδή συ ελαφυραγώγησας έθνη πολλά, άπαν το υπόλοιπον των λαών θέλουσι σε λαφυραγωγήσει, εξ αιτίας των αιμάτων των ανθρώπων και της αδικίας της γης, της πόλεως και πάντων των κατοικούντων εν αυτή.
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 Ουαί εις τον πλεονεκτούντα πλεονεξίαν κακήν διά τον οίκον αυτού, διά να θέση την φωλεάν αυτού υψηλά, διά να ελευθερωθή εκ χειρός του κακού.
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 Εβουλεύθης αισχύνην εις τον οίκόν σου, εξολοθρεύων πολλούς λαούς, και ημάρτησας κατά της ψυχής σου.
10 You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
11 Διότι ο λίθος από του τοίχου θέλει βοήσει και τα ξυλοδέματα θέλουσιν αποκριθή προς αυτόν.
11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
12 Ουαί εις τον οικοδομούντα πόλιν εν αίμασι και θεμελιούντα πόλιν εν αδικίαις.
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13 Ιδού, δεν είναι τούτο παρά του Κυρίου των δυνάμεων, να μοχθώσιν οι λαοί διά το πυρ και τα έθνη να αποκάμνωσι διά την ματαιότητα;
13 Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
14 Διότι η γη θέλει είσθαι πλήρης της γνώσεως της δόξης του Κυρίου, καθώς τα ύδατα σκεπάζουσι την θάλασσαν.
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
15 Ουαί εις τον ποτίζοντα τον πλησίον αυτού, εις σε όστις προσφέρεις την φιάλην σου και προσέτι μεθύεις αυτόν, διά να θεωρής την γύμνωσιν αυτών.
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 Ενεπλήσθης αισχύνης αντί δόξης· πίε και συ, και ας ανακαλυφθή η ακροβυστία σου· το ποτήριον της δεξιάς του Κυρίου θέλει στραφή προς σε, και εμετός ατιμίας θέλει είσθαι επί την δόξαν σου.
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 Διότι η προς τον Λίβανον αδικία σου θέλει σε καλύψει, και η φθορά των θηρίων η καταπτοήσασα αυτά θέλει σε πτοήσει, εξ αιτίας των αιμάτων των ανθρώπων και της αδικίας της γης, της πόλεως και πάντων των κατοικούντων εν αυτή.
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 Τις η ωφέλεια του γλυπτού, ότι ο μορφωτής αυτού έγλυψεν αυτό; του χωνευτού και του διδασκάλου του ψεύδους, ότι ο κατασκευάσας θαρρεί εις το έργον αυτού, ώστε να κάμνη είδωλα άφωνα;
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 Ουαί εις τον λέγοντα προς το ξύλον, Εξεγείρου· εις τον άφωνον λίθον, Σηκώθητι· αυτό θέλει διδάξει; Ιδού, αυτό είναι περιεσκεπασμένον με χρυσόν και άργυρον, και δεν είναι πνοή παντελώς εν αυτώ.
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 Αλλ' ο Κύριος είναι εν τω ναώ τω αγίω αυτού· σιώπα ενώπιον αυτού, πάσα η γη.
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
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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).
How these were chosen
“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)