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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Habakkuk 1:12-17

The Prophet's Prayer v. 12. Art Thou not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, mine Holy One? To this certainty the prophet clings; from it he derives consoling confidence. We shall not die, the people of the Lord would not be wholly exterminated. O Lord, Thou hast ordained them, the children of Israel, the Lord's people, for judgment, to carry out His judgment of punishment upon them; and, O mighty God, literally, "Thou Rock,". Thou hast established them for correction, to be chastised and... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Habakkuk 1:12-17

CHAPTER Habakkuk 1:12 to Habakkuk 2:20[The Prophet expostulates with God on Account of the Judgment, which threatens the Annihilation of the Jewish People (chap. 1.Habakkuk 1:12-17; Habakkuk 1:12-17). The waiting Posture of the Prophet (chap. 2.Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 1:1). The Command to commit to Writing the Revelation which was about to be made to Him (Habakkuk 1:2). Assurance that the Prophecy, though not fulfilled immediately, will certainly be accomplished (Habakkuk 1:3). The proud and... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

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 1:14

Makest; not infusing cruel, ravenous, and unsatiable appetites, but permitting them to act according to such appetite which was already in them. Men; who should be just to all, and wrong none, who were once framed for mutual help in civil societies, and whose life should be beneficence. As the fishes; of which the greater live on the lesser, and do greedily and all the day long feed on the smaller fry. Of the sea; where the devourers are more for number, of greater bulk, and swallow greater... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 1:15

They; either more generally oppressors every where, or else particularly the Chaldeans. Take up; draw them out slily and craftily, when they are taken by his bait. All of them without distinction, all alike, good or bad. With the angle: it may refer to the delight these oppressors took in these courses, or to the more private way of destroying. They catch them in their net; another method of the Chaldean rapine, like catching of fish, not singly and one by one, but destroying many together. And... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore, because they prosper and thrive, in which they should see and acknowledge thy wise and mighty providence, they sacrifice, idolize and pay Divine honours, ascribe the praise of their victories and acquired glory, unto their net; to their own contrivances, diligence, and power, as if the fisherman should make his net his god, and offer sacrifice for a good draught of fishes taken to the net that took them. And burn incense, another part of Divine honour, and mostly used in giving... 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

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Habakkuk 1:12-17

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Habakkuk 1:12-17

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

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

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

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 1:14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 1:15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 1:16

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

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