Habakkuk 3:3-7 ASV

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3

Teman was a city in the land of Edom: Jeremiah 49:7 and Mount Paran near to Mount Sinai, for when the Israelites left Sinai, we are told that they came into the desert of Paran. Numbers 10:12 . Indeed, from the account of Moses, it should seem to be one and the same, or so near each other as not to be separated at any great distance; for he describes the Lord's coming from it, as Habakkuk hath done in this chapter; from whence it is probable the Prophet borrowed the account. See Deuteronomy... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Habakkuk 3:4-12

It is impossible by any comment, even if written with the pen of an angel, to add any beauty to this most sublime passage. I retire from it therefore, and only beg the Reader, as he reads it, to connect with it what is uniformly said of Jesus. Surely the whole scriptures, with one concurring voice, speak of Him as the only visible Jehovah. And who that remembers Christ's transfiguration on the Mount, and compares it with what is said of glory here, can doubt but that it was a renewal of the... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3

South. God himself will come to give us his law, and to conduct us into the true land of promise: as heretofore he came from the south, (in the Hebrew Teman ) and from Mount Pharan, to give his law to his people in the desert. See Deuteronomy xxxiii. 2. (Challoner) --- Septuagint render, "the shady and thick mount, Diapsalma." St. Jerome, Pharan semper. Hebrew, Sela, Psalm ix. (Worthington) --- The term seems to denote a pause. There might be many in the same canticle, (Calmet) as we find... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:4

Horns, &c. That is, strength and power, which by a Hebrew phrase are called horns: or beams of light, which come forth from his hands: or it may allude to the cross, in the horns of which the hands of Christ were fastened, where his strength was hidden, by which he overcame the world, and drove out death and the devil. (Challoner) --- Horns may also designate the nails, the prints of which remained in our Saviour's hands after his glorious resurrection. (Haydock) --- God appeared... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:5

Death, &c. Both death and the devil shall be the executioners of his justice against his enemies; as they were heretofore against the Egyptians and Chanaanites. (Challoner) --- Hebrew daber, (Haydock) according to the different pronunciation, is rendered "the word" by the Septuagint and Theo.[Theodotion?]; "the plague," by Aquila, &c. After Christ was baptized, the devil came to tempt him. (St. Jerome) --- Devil. Hebrew resheph, (Haydock) or "bird," (Symmachus, &c.) means... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:6

Measured . Septuagint, "the earth was troubled," (Calmet) or shaken. (Haydock) --- He beheld. One look of his eye is enough to melt all the nations, and to reduce them to nothing. For all heaven and earth disappear when they come before his light, Apocalypse xx. 11. (Challoner) --- The Chanaanites were dismayed at the approach of God's people. He routed the nations, and determined the portion which he had chosen for Israel, Josue ii. 9. (Calmet) --- Mountains. By the mountains and hills are... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:7

Ethiopia, the land of the Blacks, and Madian, are here taken for the enemies of God and his people, who shall perish for their iniquity. (Challoner) --- Chus peopled that part of Arabia. (Haydock) --- Hebrew has Chusan, perhaps to rhyme with Madian; though some think that Chusan (defeated by Othoniel) and Madian (over whom Gedeon gained a complete victory) are designated, Judges ii and vi. When the Hebrews had crossed the Red Sea, the Arabs and Madianites removed their tents in great... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:3-15

3-15 God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between the Babylonish and Egyptian captivities, naturally presents itself to the mind, as well as the possibility of a like deliverance through the power of Jehovah. God appeared in his glory. All the powers of nature are shaken, and the course of nature changed, but all is for the salvation of God's own... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Habakkuk 3:1-15

Jehovah's Majestic Coming to Judgment v. 1. A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, in the form of the Davidic psalms, upon Shigionoth, after the manner of a dithyramb, in reeling, exciting time, with triumphal music. v. 2. O Lord, I have heard Thy speech, the announcement of the judgment of punishment through the Chaldeans, and was afraid. O Lord, revive Thy work, call into existence once more the former way of dealing with Thy people, as well as the double judgment of which the prophecy had... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Habakkuk 3:1-19

THE THEOPHANYCHAPTER 3[Title and Introduction (Habakkuk 3:1-2). The Prophet represents Jehovah as appearing in glorious Majesty on Sinai (Habakkuk 3:3-4). He describes the Ravages of the Plague in the Desert (Habakkuk 3:5). The Consternation of the Nations (Habakkuk 3:6-10). Reference to the Miracle at Gibeon (Habakkuk 3:11). Results of the Interposition of God on Behalf of his People (Habakkuk 3:12-15). Subject of the Introduction resumed (Habakkuk 3:16). The Prophet asserts his Confidence in... read more

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Habakkuk 3:4-12

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:4

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:5

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:6

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:7

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 3:3-15

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Habakkuk 3:1-15

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Habakkuk 3:1-19

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