As for my part, I will, saith the prophet, rejoice; look for joy, expect matter of rejoicing in the Lord, who will preserve a remnant and redeem them, who will rebuke Babylon, and will very strangely destroy it. I will joy in the God of my salvation: the prophet renews his own faith, and confirms ours. All shall end in salvation to him and believers. read more
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 3:16. Trembled] The prophet describes his own feelings at the coming of Jehovah: first, fear and trembling; then, exulting joy (Habakkuk 3:18-19). “The alarm pervades his whole body, belly, and bones, i.e. the softer and firmer component parts of the body, lips, and feet; i.e. the upper and lower organs of the body.” Habakkuk 3:17.] The trouble of the day described. The fig and vine, the noblest fruits of earth, plantations and fields yield not; folds and stalls empty... read more
Habakkuk 3:17-18 The prophet herein declares two things which are of supreme importance in the highest life of man. I. He declares the possibility of having joy independently of all external things. Here is a man who has a secret a man who rises amid the pomp of nature, the productiveness of summer, and says: "Though every light be put out, and every root be withered, I have a joy that cannot be impaired." Men of that kind stimulate us; they excite inquiry they turn our hearts into a new... read more
DISCOURSE: 1226THE CHRISTIAN’S BOASTHabakkuk 3:17-18. 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; yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.A CHRISTIAN will be distinguished from others, whatever be his situation in life; but the more trying and afflictive his condition be, the... read more
Although i.e. despite the afflictions of Israel in dispersion, the prophet will rejoice because of the Lord, as yet to return to His temple. read more
Chapter 3Now in chapter 3 it is a psalm, it is,A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth ( Habakkuk 3:1 ).Now about the seventh psalm or so, I think it is upon the Shiggaion, which is the same thing, and it is with loud crying. So this is to be read with loud crying. I'm not gonna try it, but this is the prayer of Habakkuk, no doubt, prayed with loud crying; a lamentation sort of like Jeremiah. He said,O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid ( Habakkuk 3:2 ):"Lord, I've heard... read more
Habakkuk 3:1 . A prayer of Habakkuk, by which he cheered and encouraged the church, and his own soul, under all the gloom that overspread the state of his country. Shigionoth, the name of a pensive air in which David uttered the sorrows of his heart, when persecuted by Saul. Psalms 7:0. Other conjectures are given, but this agrees best with David’s hymn. Habakkuk 3:2 . Oh Lord, I heard thy speech, and was afraid, as in the two preseding chapters, that the Chaldean armies should... read more
Habakkuk 3:17-18Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, etc.United prayer for removal of temporal afflictionsWe are called in a special manner to humble ourselves before God, on account of a great national calamity--an outbreak of cattle plague. So far as we can see, it comes directly from God. Some will say that the remedy is proper attention to the conditions of the disease, and not humiliation or prayer. But shall we admit the uselessness of prayer? Shall we say prayer must be confined to... read more
Hab 3:17 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: Ver. 17. Although the fig tree shall not blossom ] Here the prophet showeth a well settled and a sedate mind indeed; that he had attained, and, by prayer, waded unto a blessed composedness and sabbath of spirit, such as the cock on the dunghill... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 3:17
To war foreseen the prophet supposeth famine, and describeth the most grievous, as indeed it fell out. Although the fig tree, which was in that country a very considerable part of their provision to live upon, shall not blossom; not give the least sign of bringing forth fruit. Neither shall fruit be in the vines, which were also the riches and provision of those countries. The labour of the olive; either labour bestowed upon the olive, or the fruit which the olive brings forth, called here... read more