Habakkuk 1:13 NASB,NASB

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Habakkuk 1:1-17

the Apparent Prosperity of the Wicked Habakkuk 1:1-17 Habakkuk probably lived toward the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, when the Chaldeans were preparing to invade the land. Jerusalem was filled with wickedness. Crimes of violence and lawlessness had become so numerous that the prophet was appalled at the sight. He could only point to the fate of other nations, which must also befall Judah unless the people repented. Paul quotes Habakkuk 1:5 in Acts 13:41 . The Chaldeans are compared... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Habakkuk 1:1-17

In this first division of the Book we have the prophet's statement of the problems which vexed his soul. The first was the apparent indifference of Jehovah both to his prayer and to the condition of prevailing evil. To this Jehovah replied that He was at work, but that the prophet would not believe if he were told. He then proceeded to declare explicitly that His method was that of raising the Chaldeans as a scourge against His people. This answer of Jehovah, while strengthening the faith of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:12-17

Habbakuk Is Even More Put Out. How Can God Use Such Instruments to Chasten His People? (Habakkuk 1:12-17 ). Habakkuk 1:12 ‘Are you not from everlasting, O YHWH? My God, my Holy One, We will not die. O YHWH, you have ordained him for judgment, And you, O Rock, have established him for correction.’ Habakkuk acknowledges that he recognises that they are coming as instruments of chastening, and that God is over all and that therefore there was no need for despair. God will not finally allow His... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:12-17

Habakkuk 1:12-Esther : . Remonstrance over the Inhumanity of the Chaldeans.— The execution of Divine judgment raises fresh questions: Why should the Holy One, whose eyes are too pure to look on evil, appoint as minister of justice a people still more faithless and corrupt than its victim? And why should He make the nations like leaderless swarms of fish, to be swept into the net, and gathered up in the seine (drag-net), then emptied out and slaughtered, while the oppressor in brutal joy... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 1:13

Thou, O Lord, who hast raised and increased the Chaldean kingdom. Art of purer; of infinite purity and holiness. Eyes, ascribed unto God to express his knowledge; so his eves run to and fro, and his eye is upon the righteous. Than to behold: his omniscience doth behold all things, and so David expresseth it, Thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it, Psalms 10:14; but he doth not, will not, cannot, see with delight, with approbation, evil, of sin and violence. And canst not look on... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Habakkuk 1:11-17

CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 1:11. Then] Elated by victory. Change] Lit. the wind passes by; the storm of violence like the wind sweeps over the land. Some refer it to the Chaldee nation, who change in mind, lose reason and moderation, and get proud. Power] is their god, or “(saying that) his power is his own, as one who is a god to himself” [Grotius]. Henderson gives—“Then it gaineth fresh spirit; it passeth onward and contracteth guilt, (saying,) Is this his power through his God.” Habakkuk... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:13

Habakkuk 1:13 The absolute holiness of God is a truth of both natural and revealed religion. We could not worship one who was not supremely holy. Every reason we have for believing in God at all is a reason for attributing this character to Him. The words of our text are an appeal to God on the ground of His holiness; an appeal to Him to explain what seemed inconsistent with this. It is the old, old problem. Why does God tolerate the existence, even permit the triumph, of the wicked? The... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Habakkuk 1:13

DISCOURSE: 1221THE HOLINESS OF GODHabakkuk 1:13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.MEN do not sufficiently contemplate the character of God. The Psalmist, speaking of some in his day, says, “These things thou hast done; and I kept silence: and thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself [Note: Psalms 50:21.].” In like manner, we, if we do not see hefore our eyes some visible displays of God’s displeasure, are ready to imagine that he... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:1-17

Shall we turn at this time to the book of Habakkuk.Very little is known concerning the personal background of Habakkuk. Very little, nothing is known. We don't know really anything about his background. There are indications from the book itself that he was of a priestly family, perhaps one of the priests in Israel. He addresses the last chapter, which is a psalm, he addresses it to, "the chief singer on my stringed instrument." And that was usually the place of the priests who were, many of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Habakkuk 1:1-17

Habakkuk 1:1 . The burden, the prophecy, which Habakkuk the prophet saw. Here he opens his commission, as divinely inspired with vision, and invested with a charge which he must deliver. God laid the burden of Israel, and of all the surrounding nations on his prophets, as he now charges ministers with the cure of souls. Habakkuk 1:2 . Oh Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear. Manasseh continued to shed innocent blood, from one end of Jerusalem to the other. 2 Kings 21:16.... read more