The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
And God spoke to Habakkuk to write down the things that are coming upon
the last generation, but he did not make known to him the fulfillment of the end-time [...]
And as for what it says, 'so that the one who reads it may run'
Its interpretation: it concerns the Teacher of Righteousness, to whom God made known
all the mysteries of the words of his servants the prophets [...] for the vision still has
an appointed time; it presses toward the end and will not lie [...]
Its interpretation: the final age will be prolonged, and it will exceed all
that the prophets have spoken, for the mysteries of God are wondrous [...]
If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and will not
delay [...] Its interpretation: it concerns the men of truth
who do the Law, whose hands will not slacken from the service of
truth when the final age is drawn out over them, for
all the appointed times of God will come according to their fixed order, just as he decreed
for them in the mysteries of his wisdom [...] 'Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright'
[his soul] [in him] [...] Its interpretation: they will be doubled against them
[their sins] [and] [not] find favor in their judgment [...] to [...]
[...] [but the righteous] [by] [his faithfulness] [shall live] [...]