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Habakkuk is the OT's premier theodicy dialogue: the prophet demands explanation of why God uses a wicked nation (Chaldea) to judge a less wicked one (Judah). God's answer — "the just shall live by his faith" (2:4) — is the most cited OT verse in the NT epistles (Rom 1:17; Gal 3:11; Heb 10:38), and the phrase that ignited Luther's Reformation insight on justification by faith.
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- Primary Witness Text: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. 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. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water 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 thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. Thou wentest forth...
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Habakkuk is the OT's premier theodicy dialogue: the prophet demands explanation of why God uses a wicked nation (Chaldea) to judge a less wicked one (Judah). God's answer — "the just shall live by his faith" (2:4) — is the most cited OT verse in the NT epistles (Rom 1:17; Gal 3:11; Heb 10:38), and the phrase that ignited Luther's Reformation insight on justification by faith.
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Habakkuk 3:1
Hebrew
תְּפִלָּה לַחֲבַקּוּק הַנָּבִיא עַל שִׁגְיֹנֽוֹת׃tefilah-lachavaqvq-hanaviy'-'al-shigeyonvot
KJV: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
AKJV: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigionoth.
ASV: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth.
YLT: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet concerning erring ones:
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:2
Hebrew
יְהוָה שָׁמַעְתִּי שִׁמְעֲךָ יָרֵאתִי יְהוָה פָּֽעָלְךָ בְּקֶרֶב שָׁנִים חַיֵּיהוּ בְּקֶרֶב שָׁנִים תּוֹדִיעַ בְּרֹגֶז רַחֵם תִּזְכּֽוֹר׃yehvah-shama'etiy-shime'akha-yare'tiy-yehvah-fa'alekha-veqerev-shaniym-chayeyhv-veqerev-shaniym-tvodiy'a-verogez-rachem-tizekhvor
KJV: O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
AKJV: O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive your work in the middle of the years, in the middle of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
ASV: O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid:
YLT: O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.
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Habakkuk 3:2
Verse 2 In the midst of the years - בקרב שנים bekereb shanim, "As the years approach." The nearer the time, the clearer and fuller is the prediction; and the signs of the times show that the complete fulfillment is at hand. But as the judgments will be heavy, (and they are not greater than we deserve), yet, Lord, in the midst of wrath - infliction of punishment - remember mercy, and spare the souls that return unto thee with humiliation and prayer.
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Exposition: Habakkuk 3:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:3
Hebrew
אֱלוֹהַ מִתֵּימָן יָבוֹא וְקָדוֹשׁ מֵֽהַר־פָּארָן סֶלָה כִּסָּה שָׁמַיִם הוֹדוֹ וּתְהִלָּתוֹ מָלְאָה הָאָֽרֶץ׃'elvoha-miteyman-yavvo'-veqadvosh-mehar-fa'ran-selah-khisah-shamayim-hvodvo-vtehilatvo-male'ah-ha'aretz
KJV: God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
AKJV: God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
ASV: God came from Teman,
YLT: God from Teman doth come, The Holy One from mount Paran. Pause! Covered the heavens hath His majesty, And His praise hath filled the earth.
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Habakkuk 3:3
Verse 3 God came from Teman - Bp. Lowth observes: "This is a sudden burst of poetry, in the true spirit of the ode; the concealed connection being that God, who had formerly displayed such power in delivering the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, might succor their posterity in a like wonderful manner." Hence the prophet selects the most striking facts of that first deliverance; and to decorate and render them impressive, brings forth all the powers of his genius, in all the strength and elegance of his language. "What crowns the sublimity of this piece," says Bp. Lowth, "is the singular elegance of the close; and were it not that antiquity has here and there thrown its veil of obscurity over it, there could not be conceived a more perfect and masterly poem of its kind." See, for more particulars, his twenty-eighth Prelection. I shall endeavor to show the facts in the deliverance from Egypt, to which the prophet refers. Teman - This was a city, the capital of a province of Idumea, to the south of the land of Canaan. Num 20:21; Jer 49:7. Paran - Was a city which gave its name to a province in Arabia Petraea. Gen 21:21; Deu 33:2. Selah - This word is not well known; probably it means a pause or alteration in the music. See it in the Psalms, and its explanation there. His glory covered the heavens - His glory when he descended on Mount Sinai, and in the pillar of fire by night. The earth was full of his praise - All the land was astonished at the magnificence of his works in behalf of his people. Instead of praise, some translate splendor. The whole land was illuminated by his glory.
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Habakkuk 3:3
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Num 20:21
- Jer 49:7
- Gen 21:21
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- Bp
- Lowth
- See
- Prelection
- Egypt
- Idumea
- Canaan
- Arabia Petraea
- Psalms
- Mount Sinai
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:4
Hebrew
וְנֹגַהּ כָּאוֹר תִּֽהְיֶה קַרְנַיִם מִיָּדוֹ לוֹ וְשָׁם חֶבְיוֹן עֻזֹּֽה׃venogah-kha'vor-tiheyeh-qarenayim-miyadvo-lvo-vesham-cheveyvon-'uzoh
KJV: And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
AKJV: And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
ASV: Andhisbrightness was as the light;
YLT: And the brightness is as the light, He hath rays out of His hand, And there--the hiding of His strength.
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Habakkuk 3:4
Verse 4 He had horns coming out of his hand - קרנים karnayim, rays. His hand - his power - was manifested in a particular place, by the sudden issuing out of pencils of rays, which diverged in coruscations of light, so as to illuminate the whole hemisphere. Yet "there was the hiding of his power." His Majesty could not be seen, nor any kind of image, because of the insufferable splendor. This may either refer to the lightnings on Mount Sinai or to the brightness which occasionally proceeded from the shechinah or glory of God between the cherubim, over the mercy-seat. See Capellus and Newcome. If lightnings are intended, the dense cloud from which they proceeded may be meant by the "hiding of his power;" for when the lightnings burst forth, his power and energy became manifest. Probably from this the Jupiter Keraunos or Jupiter Brontes of the heathens was borrowed; who is always represented with forked or zigzag lightnings in his hand.
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Habakkuk 3:4
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Exposition: Habakkuk 3:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:5
Hebrew
לְפָנָיו יֵלֶךְ דָּבֶר וְיֵצֵא רֶשֶׁף לְרַגְלָֽיו׃lefanayv-yelekhe-daver-veyetze'-reshef-leragelayv
KJV: Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
AKJV: Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
ASV: Before him went the pestilence,
YLT: Before Him goeth pestilence, And a burning flame goeth forth at His feet.
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Habakkuk 3:5
Verse 5 Before him went the pestilence - This plague was several times inflicted on the disobedient Israelites in the wilderness; see Num 11:33; Num 14:37; Num 16:46; and was always the proof that the just God was then manifesting his power among them. Burning coals event forth at his feet - Newcome translates, "And flashes of fire went forth after him." The disobedient Israelites were consumed by a fire that went out from Jehovah; see Lev 10:2; Num 11:1; Num 16:35. And the burnt-offering was consumed by a fire which came out from before Jehovah, Lev 11:24.
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Num 11:33
- Num 14:37
- Num 16:46
- Lev 10:2
- Num 11:1
- Num 16:35
- Lev 11:24
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Jehovah
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:6
Hebrew
עָמַד ׀ וַיְמֹדֶד אֶרֶץ רָאָה וַיַּתֵּר גּוֹיִם וַיִּתְפֹּֽצְצוּ הַרְרֵי־עַד שַׁחוּ גִּבְעוֹת עוֹלָם הֲלִיכוֹת עוֹלָם לֽוֹ׃'amad- -vayemoded-'eretz-ra'ah-vayater-gvoyim-vayitefotzetzv-harerey-'ad-shachv-give'vot-'volam-haliykhvot-'volam-lvo
KJV: 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.
AKJV: 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.
ASV: He stood, and measured the earth;
YLT: He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old are His.
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Habakkuk 3:6
Verse 6 He stood, and measured the earth - ארץ erets, the land; he divided the promised land among the twelve tribes. This is the allusion; and this the prophet had in his eye. God not only made a general assignment of the land to the Hebrews; but he even divided it into such portions as the different families required. Here were both power and condescension. When a conqueror had subdued a country, he divided it among his soldiers. Among the Romans, those among whom the conquered lands were divided were termed beneficiary; and the lands beneficia, as being held on the beneficence of the sovereign. He beheld, and drove asunder the nations - The nations of Canaan, the Hittites, Hivites, Jebusites, etc., and all who opposed his people. Even his look dispersed them. The everlasting mountains were scattered - Or, broken asunder. This may refer to the convulsions on Mount Sinai; and to the earth quake which announced the descent of the Most High. See Exo 19:18. "God occupied the summit of the eternal Mount Sinai; and led his people over the eternal mountains of Arabia Petraea; and this sense is preferable to the figurative one, that his ways or doings are predetermined front everlasting." - Newcome. The epithets עד ad, and עולם olam, eternal, and everlasting, are applied to mountains and immense rocks, because no other parts of nature are less subject to decay or change, than these immense masses of earth and stone, and that almost indestructible stone, granite, out of which Sinai appears to be formed. A piece of the beautiful granite of this mountain now lies before me. This is a figurative description of the passage of the Israelites through the deserts of Arabia, over mountains, rocks, and through the trackless wilderness; over and through which God, by his power and providence, gave them a safe passage. The following beautiful piece from the Fragments of Aeschylus will illustrate the preceding description, and please the learned reader. Χωριζε θνητων τον Θεον, και μη δοκει Ομοιον αυτῳ σαρκινον καθεσταναι· Ουκ οισθα δ' αυτον· ποτε μεν ὡς πυρ φαινεται Απλαστον ὁρμῃ ποτε δ' ὑδωρ, ποτε δε γνοφος. Και θηρσιν αυτος γινεται παρεμφερης, Ανεμῳ, νεφει τε, κᾳστραπῃ, βροντῃ, βροχῃ. Ὑπηρετει δ' αυτῳ θαλασσα, και πετραι, Και πασα πηγη, χ' ὑδατος συστηματα· Τρεμει δ' ορη και γαια και πελωριος Βυθος θαλασσης, κωρεων ὑψος μεγα, Οταν επιβλεψῃ γοργον ομμα δεσποτου. Aeschyli Fragm. Confound not God with man; nor madly deem His form is mortal, and of flesh like thine. Thou know'st him not. Sometimes like fire he glows In wrath severe; sometimes as water flows; In brooding darkness now his power conceals And then in brutes that mighty power reveals. In clouds tempestuous we the Godhead find; He mounts the storm, and rides the winged wind; In vivid lightnings flashes from on high; In rattling thunders rends the lowering sky; Fountains and rivers, seas and floods obey, And ocean's deep abyss yields to his sway; The mountains tremble, and the hills sink down, Crumbled to dust by the Almighty's frown. When God unfolds the terrors of his eye, All things with horror quake, and in confusion lie. J. B. B. Clarke.
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- Ovid
- Clarke
- Hebrews
- Romans
- Canaan
- Hittites
- Hivites
- Jebusites
- Or
- Mount Sinai
- Most High
- Arabia Petraea
- Newcome
- Arabia
- Aeschyli Fragm
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:7
Hebrew
תַּחַת אָוֶן רָאִיתִי אָהֳלֵי כוּשָׁן יִרְגְּזוּן יְרִיעוֹת אֶרֶץ מִדְיָֽן׃tachat-'aven-ra'iytiy-'aholey-khvshan-yiregezvn-yeriy'vot-'eretz-mideyan
KJV: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
AKJV: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
ASV: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
YLT: Under sorrow I have seen tents of Cushan, Tremble do curtains of the land of Midian.
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Habakkuk 3:7
Verse 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction - Cush is Arabia. The Arabians dwelt in tents, hence they were called Scenitae. When the Lord appeared on Mount Sinai, the Arabs of the Red Sea abandoned their tents, being terror-struck; and the Midianites also were seized with fear. See the desolation wrought among this people by Phinehas, Num 31:1, etc., on account of their having enticed the Israelites to idolatry, Num 25:1, etc. Either Cush and Midian lay contiguous to each other; or, these names are poetically used to express the same place.
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- Num 31:1
- Num 25:1
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Arabia
- Scenitae
- Mount Sinai
- Phinehas
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:8
Hebrew
הֲבִנְהָרִים חָרָה יְהוָה אִם בַּנְּהָרִים אַפֶּךָ אִם־בַּיָּם עֶבְרָתֶךָ כִּי תִרְכַּב עַל־סוּסֶיךָ מַרְכְּבֹתֶיךָ יְשׁוּעָֽה׃havinehariym-charah-yehvah-'im-vanehariym-'afekha-'im-vayam-'everatekha-khiy-tirekhav-'al-svseykha-marekhevoteykha-yeshv'ah
KJV: Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
AKJV: Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was your anger against the rivers? was your wrath against the sea, that you did ride on your horses and your chariots of salvation?
ASV: Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers?
YLT: Against rivers hath Jehovah been wroth? Against rivers is Thine anger? Against the sea is Thy wrath? For Thou dost ride on Thy horses--Thy chariots of salvation?
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Habakkuk 3:8
Verse 8 Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? - Floods; here is a reference to the passage of the Red Sea. The Lord is represented as heading his troops, riding in his chariot, and commanding the sea to divide, that a free passage might be left for his army to pass over.
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- Floods
- Red Sea
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:9
Hebrew
עֶרְיָה תֵעוֹר קַשְׁתֶּךָ שְׁבֻעוֹת מַטּוֹת אֹמֶר סֶלָה נְהָרוֹת תְּבַקַּע־אָֽרֶץ׃'ereyah-te'vor-qashetekha-shevu'vot-matvot-'omer-selah-neharvot-tevaqa'-'aretz
KJV: Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
AKJV: Your bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even your word. Selah. You did split the earth with rivers.
ASV: Thy bow was made quite bare;
YLT: Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes--saying, `Pause!' With rivers Thou dost cleave the earth.
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Habakkuk 3:9
Verse 9 Thy bow was made quite naked - That is, it was drawn out of its case; as the arrows had their quiver, so the bows had their cases. A fine oriental bow and bow-case, with quiver and arrows, are now before me; they show with what propriety Jehovah is represented as taking his bow out of its case, in order to set his arrow upon the cord, to shoot at his enemies. It is not the drawing out, or making bare the arrow, that is mentioned here; but the taking the bow out of its case to prepare to shoot. This verse appears to be an answer to the questions in the preceding: "Was the Lord displeased," etc. The answer is, All this was done "according to the oaths of the tribes;" the covenant of God, frequently repeated and renewed, which he made with the tribes, to give them the land of the Canaanites for their inheritance. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers - Or, "Thou didst cleave the streams of the land." Or, "Thou cleavedst the dry land into rivers." This may be a reference to the passage of Jordan, and transactions at Arnon and the brook Jabbok. See Num 21:13-15. In this verse we have Selah again, which, as before, may signify a pause, or some alteration in the music.
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Habakkuk 3:9
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- Num 21:13-15
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Or
- Jordan
- Jabbok
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:10
Hebrew
רָאוּךָ יָחִילוּ הָרִים זֶרֶם מַיִם עָבָר נָתַן תְּהוֹם קוֹלוֹ רוֹם יָדֵיהוּ נָשָֽׂא׃ra'vkha-yachiylv-hariym-zerem-mayim-'avar-natan-tehvom-qvolvo-rvom-yadeyhv-nasha'
KJV: The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
AKJV: The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
ASV: The mountains saw thee, and were afraid;
YLT: Seen thee--pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up.
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Habakkuk 3:10
Verse 10 The mountains saw thee - This is the continued answer to the questions in Hab 3:8. These are figures highly poetic, to show with what ease God accomplished the most arduous tasks in behalf of his people. As soon as the mountains saw him, they trembled, they were in pangs. When he appeared, the sea fled to right and left, to give him a passage. "It uttered its voice." The separation of the waters occasioned a terrible noise. "And it lifted up its hands on high." Its waters, being separated, stood in heaps on the right hand and left. These heaps or waves are poetically represented here as the hands of the sea.
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Habakkuk 3:10
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- Hab 3:8
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:11
Hebrew
שֶׁמֶשׁ יָרֵחַ עָמַד זְבֻלָה לְאוֹר חִצֶּיךָ יְהַלֵּכוּ לְנֹגַהּ בְּרַק חֲנִיתֶֽךָ׃shemesh-yarecha-'amad-zevulah-le'vor-chitzeykha-yehalekhv-lenogah-veraq-chaniytekha
KJV: The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
AKJV: The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.
ASV: The sun and moon stood still in their habitation,
YLT: Sun--moon--hath stood--a habitation, At the light thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy spear.
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Habakkuk 3:11
Verse 11 The sun and moon stood still - This was at the prayer of Joshua, when he fought against the Amorites. See Jos 10:11-12 (note), and the notes there. At the light of thine arrows they went - I think we should translate: - By their light, thine arrows went abroad; By their brightness, the lightning of thy spear. Calvin very justly remarks that the arrows and spears of the Israelites are called those of God, under whose auspices the people fought: the meaning is, that by the continuation of the light of the sun and moon, then stayed in their course, the Israelites saw how to continue the battle, till their enemies were all defeated.
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Habakkuk 3:11
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- Ray
- Joshua
- Amorites
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:12
Hebrew
בְּזַעַם תִּצְעַד־אָרֶץ בְּאַף תָּדוּשׁ גּוֹיִֽם׃veza'am-titze'ad-'aretz-ve'af-tadvsh-gvoyim
KJV: Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
AKJV: You did march through the land in indignation, you did thresh the heathen in anger.
ASV: Thou didst march through the land in indignation;
YLT: In indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost thresh nations.
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Habakkuk 3:12
Verse 12 Thou didst march through the land - This refers to the conquest of Canaan. God is represented as going at the head of his people as general-in-chief; and leading them on from conquest to conquest - which was the fact. Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger - Thou didst tread them down, as the oxen do the sheaves on the threshing-floor.
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Habakkuk 3:12
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- Canaan
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:13
Hebrew
יָצָאתָ לְיֵשַׁע עַמֶּךָ לְיֵשַׁע אֶת־מְשִׁיחֶךָ מָחַצְתָּ רֹּאשׁ מִבֵּית רָשָׁע עָרוֹת יְסוֹד עַד־צַוָּאר סֶֽלָה׃yatza'ta-leyesha'-'amekha-leyesha'-'et-meshiychekha-machatzeta-ro'sh-miveyt-rasha'-'arvot-yesvod-'ad-tzava'r-selah
KJV: Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
AKJV: You went forth for the salvation of your people, even for salvation with your anointed; you wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.
ASV: Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,
YLT: Thou hast gone forth for the salvation of Thy people, For salvation with Thine anointed, Thou hast smitten the head of the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation unto the neck. Pause!
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Habakkuk 3:13
Verse 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people - Their deliverance would not have been effected but through thy interference. For salvation with thine anointed - That is, with Joshua, whom God had anointed, or solemnly appointed to fill the place of Moses, and lead the people into the promised land. If we read, with the common text, משיחך meshichecha, "thy anointed," the singular number, Joshua is undoubtedly meant, who was God's instrument to put the people in possession of Canaan: but if, with several MSS. and some copies of the Septuagint, we read משיחיך meshicheycha, "thy anointed ones," the Israelites must be intended. They are frequently called God's anointed, or God's saints. The sense is very far-fetched when applied to Jesus Christ. Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked - This alludes to the slaying of the first-born through all the land of Egypt. These were the heads of the houses or families. By discovering the foundation unto the neck - The general meaning of this clause is sufficiently plain: the government of these lands should be utterly subverted; the very foundations of it should be razed. But what means unto the neck, עד צואר ad tsavvar? Several critics read עד צור ad tsar, "Unto the Rock," that on which the house is founded: and this very intelligible reading is obtained by the omission of a single letter, א aleph, from the word צוער, This conjecture has been adopted by Newcome, though unsupported either by MS. or version. But is the conjecture necessary? I think not: read the verse as it ought to be read, and all will be plain. "Thou hast wounded the head even unto the neck, in the house of the wicked, by laying bare the foundation." The whole head, neck, and all are cut off. There was no hope left to the Egyptians, because the first-born of every family was cut off, so that the very foundation was laid bare, no first-born being left to continue the heirship of families.
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Habakkuk 3:13
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- Septuagint
- Moses
- Jesus
- Joshua
- Canaan
- Jesus Christ
- Egypt
- Rock
- Newcome
- Egyptians
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:14
Hebrew
נָקַבְתָּ בְמַטָּיו רֹאשׁ פרזו פְּרָזָיו יִסְעֲרוּ לַהֲפִיצֵנִי עֲלִיצֻתָם כְּמוֹ־לֶאֱכֹל עָנִי בַּמִּסְתָּֽר׃naqaveta-vematayv-ro'sh-frzv-ferazayv-yise'arv-lahafiytzeniy-'aliytzutam-khemvo-le'ekhol-'aniy-vamisetar
KJV: Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
AKJV: You did strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
ASV: Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors:
YLT: Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation is as to consume the poor in secret.
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Habakkuk 3:14
Verse 14 Thou didst strike through - The Hebrew will bear this sense: "Thou hast pierced amidst their tribes the head of their troops," referring to Pharaoh and his generals, who came like a whirlwind to fall upon the poor Israelites, when they appeared to be hemmed in by sea, and no place for their escape. If we follow the common reading, it seems to intimate that the troops of Pharaoh, in their confusion (for God shone out upon them from the cloud) fell foul of each other; and with their staves, or weapons, slew one another: but the head of the villages or towns, i.e., Pharaoh was drowned with his army in the Red Sea.
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Habakkuk 3:14
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- Israelites
- Pharaoh
- Red Sea
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:15
Hebrew
דָּרַכְתָּ בַיָּם סוּסֶיךָ חֹמֶר מַיִם רַבִּֽים׃darakheta-vayam-svseykha-chomer-mayim-raviym
KJV: Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
AKJV: You did walk through the sea with your horses, through the heap of great waters.
ASV: Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses,
YLT: Thou hast proceeded through the sea with Thy horses--the clay of many waters.
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Habakkuk 3:15
Verse 15 Thou didst walk through the sea - There was no occasion to hurry across; all was safe, for God had divided the waters: and his terrible cloud had removed from before, and stood behind them, so that it was between them and the Egyptians. See Exo 14:19, Exo 14:20.
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Habakkuk 3:15
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- Egyptians
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:16
Hebrew
שָׁמַעְתִּי ׀ וַתִּרְגַּז בִּטְנִי לְקוֹל צָלֲלוּ שְׂפָתַי יָבוֹא רָקָב בַּעֲצָמַי וְתַחְתַּי אֶרְגָּז אֲשֶׁר אָנוּחַ לְיוֹם צָרָה לַעֲלוֹת לְעַם יְגוּדֶֽנּוּ׃shama'etiy- -vatiregaz-viteniy-leqvol-tzalalv-shefatay-yavvo'-raqav-va'atzamay-vetachetay-'eregaz-'asher-'anvcha-leyvom-tzarah-la'alvot-le'am-yegvdenv
KJV: When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
AKJV: When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops. ¶
ASV: I heard, and my body trembled,
YLT: I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.
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Habakkuk 3:16
Verse 16 When I heard, my belly trembled - The prophet, having finished his account of the wonders done by Jehovah, in bringing their fathers from Egypt into the promised land, now returns to the desolate state of his countrymen, who are shortly to be led into captivity, and suffer the most grievous afflictions; and although he had a sure word of prophecy that they should be ultimately delivered, yet the thoughts of the evils they must previously endure filled his soul with terror and dismay; so that he wishes to be removed from earth before this tribulation should come, that his eyes might not behold the desolations of his country. When he (Nebuchadnezzar) cometh up unto the people, (the Jews), he will invade them (overpower and carry them away captive) with his troops.
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Habakkuk 3:16
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- Jehovah
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade th...'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:17
Hebrew
כִּֽי־תְאֵנָה לֹֽא־תִפְרָח וְאֵין יְבוּל בַּגְּפָנִים כִּחֵשׁ מַעֲשֵׂה־זַיִת וּשְׁדֵמוֹת לֹא־עָשָׂה אֹכֶל גָּזַר מִמִּכְלָה צֹאן וְאֵין בָּקָר בָּרְפָתִֽים׃khiy-te'enah-lo'-tiferach-ve'eyn-yevvl-vagefaniym-khichesh-ma'asheh-zayit-vshedemvot-lo'-'ashah-'okhel-gazar-mimikhelah-tzo'n-ve'eyn-vaqar-varefatiym
KJV: Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
AKJV: Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
ASV: For though the fig-tree shall not flourish,
YLT: Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls.
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Habakkuk 3:17
Verse 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom - תפרח tiphrach, "shall not flourish," shall not put forth its young figs, for the fig tree does not blossom. The young figs appear as soon as the old ones are ripe, as I have often had occasion to observe. This verse most nervously paints the desolate state of the land of Judea during the captivity. In its hemistich form, it may be translated thus: - For the fig tree shall not flourish, And there shall be no fruit on the vines; The fruit of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall supply no food: The flocks shall be cut off from the fold, And no herds shall be found in the stalls: Yet in Jehovah will I exult; I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Vulgate has: - Yet I in the Lord will rejoice, And will exult in Jesus my God. The Targum countenances this version: - - ואנא במימרא דיי אבוע veana bemeimra dayai abua, "But in the Word of the Lord will I rejoice," i.e., the personal, substantial Word of Jehovah. These two verses give the finest display of resignation and confidence that I have ever met with. He saw that evil was at hand, and unavoidable, he submitted to the dispensation of God, whose Spirit enabled him to paint it in all its calamitous circumstances. He knew that God was merciful and gracious. He trusted to his promise, though all appearances were against its fulfillment; for he knew that the word of Jehovah could not fail, and therefore his confidence is unshaken. No paraphrase can add any thing to this hymn, which is full of inexpressible dignity and elegance, leaving even its unparalleled piety out of the question.
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Habakkuk 3:17
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- Vulgate
- Targum
- Jesus
- Jehovah
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no her...'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:18
Hebrew
וַאֲנִי בַּיהוָה אֶעְלוֹזָה אָגִילָה בֵּאלֹהֵי יִשְׁעִֽי׃va'aniy-vayhvah-'e'elvozah-'agiylah-ve'lohey-yishe'iy
KJV: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
AKJV: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
ASV: Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah,
YLT: Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Habakkuk 3:18Generated editorial synthesis
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Habakkuk 3:18
Habakkuk 3:18 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Habakkuk 3:18
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Habakkuk 3:18
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Habakkuk 3:19
Hebrew
יְהוִהּ אֲדֹנָי חֵילִי וַיָּשֶׂם רַגְלַי כָּֽאַיָּלוֹת וְעַל בָּמוֹתַי יַדְרִכֵנִי לַמְנַצֵּחַ בִּנְגִינוֹתָֽי׃ 56 3 4 4yehvih-'adonay-cheyliy-vayashem-ragelay-kha'ayalvot-ve'al-vamvotay-yaderikheniy-lamenatzecha-vinegiynvotay
KJV: The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
AKJV: The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk on my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
ASV: Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength;
YLT: Jehovah the Lord is my strength, And He doth make my feet like hinds, And on my high-places causeth me to tread. To the overseer with my stringed instruments!
Commentary WitnessHabakkuk 3:19Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Habakkuk 3:19
Verse 19 The Lord God is my strength - This is an imitation, if not a quotation, from Psa 18:32-33 (note), where see the notes. Will make me to walk upon mine high places - This last verse is spoken in the person of the people, who seem to anticipate their restoration; and that they shall once more rejoice in the hills and mountains of Judea. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments - This line, which is evidently a superscription, leads me to suppose that when the prophet had completed his short ode, he folded it up, with the above direction to the master singer, or leader of the choir, to be sung in the temple service. Many of the Psalms are directed in the same way. "To the master singer;" or, "chief musician;" to be sung, according to their nature, on different kinds of instruments, or with particular airs or tunes. Neginoth, נגינות which we translate stringed instruments, means such as were struck with a plectrum, or excited by some kind of friction or pulsation; as violins and cymbals or tambourines are. I do not think that the line makes any part of the prophecy, but merely the superscription or direction of the work when it was finished. The ending will appear much more dignified, this line being separated from it.
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Habakkuk 3:19
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- Judea
- Neginoth
Exposition: Habakkuk 3:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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1
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Canonical references surfaced in commentary
- Hab 3:1
- Hab 3:2
- Hab 3:3
- Hab 3:4-6
- Hab 3:7-15
- Hab 3:16-19
- Hab 2:20
- Hab 1:1-11
- Habakkuk 3:1
- Habakkuk 3:2
- Num 20:21
- Jer 49:7
- Gen 21:21
- Habakkuk 3:3
- Habakkuk 3:4
- Num 11:33
- Num 14:37
- Num 16:46
- Lev 10:2
- Num 11:1
- Num 16:35
- Lev 11:24
- Habakkuk 3:5
- Habakkuk 3:6
- Num 31:1
- Num 25:1
- Habakkuk 3:7
- Habakkuk 3:8
- Num 21:13-15
- Habakkuk 3:9
- Hab 3:8
- Habakkuk 3:10
- Habakkuk 3:11
- Habakkuk 3:12
- Habakkuk 3:13
- Habakkuk 3:14
- Habakkuk 3:15
- Habakkuk 3:16
- Habakkuk 3:17
- Habakkuk 3:18
- Habakkuk 3:19
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- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- Ray
- Chaldeans
- But
- Teman
- Egypt
- Chaldee
- Habakkuk
- Shigionoth
- Arabic
- Lord
- Jerusalem
- Apb
- De Rossi
- Bp
- Lowth
- See
- Prelection
- Idumea
- Canaan
- Arabia Petraea
- Psalms
- Mount Sinai
- Newcome
- Jehovah
- Ovid
- Clarke
- Hebrews
- Romans
- Hittites
- Hivites
- Jebusites
- Or
- Most High
- Arabia
- Aeschyli Fragm
- Scenitae
- Phinehas
- Floods
- Red Sea
- Jordan
- Jabbok
- Joshua
- Amorites
- Moses
- Jesus
- Jesus Christ
- Rock
- Egyptians
- Israelites
- Pharaoh
- Targum
- Judea
- Neginoth
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Habakkuk 3:1
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