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HABAKKUK
Updated: July 6, 2007
The Bible Commentary
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[C]2000-2007 by Richard L Zorek
Hab 1:1: "The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see."The writer identifies himelf as a prophet. Habaqquq is an unusual Hebrew name derived from the verb habaq, "embrace." Thus his name probably means "One who Embraces" or "Clings."
Hab 1:2: How long, O LORD , must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, "Violence!"
but you do not save?
Hab 1:3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.
5 "Look at the nations and watch-
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwelling places not their own.
7 They are a feared and dreaded people;
they are a law to themselves
and promote their own honor.
8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
fiercer than wolves at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like a vulture swooping to devour;
9 they all come bent on violence.
Their hordes advance like a desert wind
and gather prisoners like sand.
10 They deride kings
and scoff at rulers.
They laugh at all fortified cities;
they build earthen ramps and capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on-
guilty men, whose own strength is their god."
And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth" Motivation to keep you going....keep you running.
Hab 2:3: For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end
and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it;
it will certainly come and will not delay.
Don't allow a change in plans to bring about disappointment; just keep hanging on to your faith with joyful expectation because your day is coming.
hab 2:4: Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith Living by faith will bring the vision to fruition.
Hab 2:5: indeed, wine betrays him;
he is arrogant and never at rest.
Because he is as greedy as the grave
and like death is never satisfied,
he gathers to himself all the nations
and takes captive all the peoples. Arrogance does not rest.
Hab 3:2: "LORD, I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD.
Renew them in our day,
in our time make them known;
in wrath remember mercy." It is supposed that the prophet Habbakkuk was contemporary with Jeremiah, and that this prophecy was uttered in anticipation of the Babylonish captivity. Looking at the judgments which were speedily to come upon his nation, the soul of the prophet was wrought up to an agony, and he cried out in his distress: "O Lord, revive Thy work." As if he had said: "O Lord, grant that Thy judgments may not make Israel desolate. In the midst of these awful years let the judgments of God be made the means of reviving religion among us. In wrath remember mercy."
Hab 3:6: He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting When He does something, it is intended forever.
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