Habakkuk 3:2-16

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:9

‘The bow was made quite bare, The oaths to the tribes were a spoken word. Selah. (Consider that!)’ This probably denotes the moment of entry into Canaan. God prepared His bow for action and confirmed His oaths personally to the tribes in readiness to march through the land in His wrath (Habakkuk 3:12). For we know that the entry of His people into the land of Canaan was not only in order to present them with an inheritance, but also to bring His dire judgment on the Canaanites (Amorites)... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:9-11

‘You divided the earth with rivers, The mountains saw you and were afraid, The tempest of waters passed by, The deep uttered his voice, And lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of your arrows as they went, At the shining of your glittering spear.’ All that is permanent in the world is seen as responding to God as He comes to the aid of His people. The rivers, the mountains, the tempest of waters, the deep, the sun and the moon all yield... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:13-15

‘You wounded the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation, even to the neck. Selah (consider that!) You pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors, They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was to devour the poor in secret. You trod the sea with your horses, The heap of mighty waters.’ Parallels with the conquest continue. The head from the house of the wicked can be seen as referring to a petty king or similar. Many were executed by Joshua (Joshua... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:16

‘I heard and my belly trembled, My lips quivered at the sound (‘voice’), Rottenness entered into my bones, And I trembled in my place, I will rest in the day of trouble, When he comes up against the people, He will overcome (or ‘press on, invade’) them.’ Habakkuk now hears, probably in vision, the approach of the Babylonian army, and describes the effect it had on him. Butterflies arose in his stomach, his lips quivered at the sound, he felt as though his bones were crumbling, and he trembled... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:1-19

Habakkuk 3. The Prayer of Habakkuk. Habakkuk 3:1 . Shigionoth: probably plural of shiggaion ( Psalms 7:1, p. 373). But LXX reads n e ginoth, “ on the stringed instruments” ( cf. Psalms 4:1; Psalms 6:1, etc.). Habakkuk 3:2 . The poet has both heard of and seen Yahweh’ s doings in days gone by, and prays Him anew to reveal His saving power to His people.For yarethi, “ I was afraid,” read ra’ ithi, “ I have seen” (LXX), to be taken with the following words: thus, “ I have seen Thy work,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:3-16

Habakkuk 3:3-Nehemiah : . In answer to his prayer, Yahweh comes from Sinai, riding on His victorious chariots, surrounded by glory and splendour, His bow uncovered and His quiver filled with shafts, making the mountains to sink low and the earth itself to quake, the floods to roar, and the sun and moon to forget their shining, piercing the head of the enemy, while He brings salvation to His people. So awful is the sight that the poet’ s whole frame trembles, his lips quiver, and his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 3:2

I have heard; received answer to the inquiry made Habakkuk 1:13-17, whether by voice from heaven, or by inward illumination or irradiation of the mind, or any other way of impression from the prophetic Spirit, needs not be inquired. Thy speech; the report or declaration God made to him concerning the future corrections of his own people, and the devastations Babylon would make among them; and next, the destruction which should fall upon the Babylonians by the Medes and Persians, which is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 3:3

God, the God of our fathers, our God, came; appeared, discovered himself, for that is his coming, who, since he fills all places at all times, cannot be said to come by any change of place. Teman; either appellatively, the south, or else as a proper name of a mountain or country. so called from Teman, son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau. It is also called Seir, or is one particular hill among those many which make up Mount Seir. It was not far from Mount Sinai, where the law was given, and the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 3:4

His brightness, that lustre in which God appeared, that unparalleled splendour which shined from him, was as the light; pure, clear as the sun, but much more dazzling and overcoming. Horns: some read it beams or rays of light, and so the Hebrew will bear, and thus it is plain. Out of his hand: our God is all glory and light; Moses’s face shined; the face, yea hands, of our God shine with glorious light; he dwelleth in light. There; either in that place where he thus appeared, or in that light... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 3:5

Before him: when God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt into Canaan, he made the pestilence to go before him, so preparing room for his people. The pestilence, which wasted the inhabitants of Canaan, swept them out. Burning coals; burning fevers, and other distempers of fiery and destructive nature, which destroyed the accursed nations. Went forth; as sent, and observing the way he directed. At his feet; kept even pace, or waited on him, were his immediate forerunners. All this mentioned... read more

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