1 The message which the prophet Ḥaḇaqquq saw.
2 O יהוה, till when shall I cry, and You not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” and You do not save.
3 Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.
4 Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.
5 “Look among the nations and see, and be amazed, be amazed! For a work is being wrought in your days which you would not believe if it were told.