Habakkuk 1:5-17 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:5-11

We have here an answer to the prophet's complaint, giving him assurance that, though God bore long, he would not bear always with this provoking people; for the day of vengeance was in his heart, and he must tell them so, that they might by repentance and reformation turn away the judgment they were threatened with. I. The preamble to the sentence is very awful (Hab. 1:5): Behold, you among the heathen, and regard. Since they will not be brought to repentance by the long-suffering of God, he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:12-17

The prophet, having received of the Lord that which he was to deliver to the people, now turns to God, and again addresses himself to him for the ease of his own mind under the burden which he saw. And still he is full of complaints. If he look about him, he sees nothing but violence done by Israel; if he look before him, he sees nothing but violence done against Israel; and it is hard to say which is the more melancholy sight. His thoughts of both he pours out before the Lord. It is our duty... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:5

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard ,.... This is the Lord's answer to the prophet's complaint, or what he directs him to say to the Jews, guilty of the crimes complained of, which should not go long unpunished; and who are called upon to look around them, and see what was doing among the nations; how the king of Babylon had overturned the Assyrian empire, and was going from place to place, subduing one nation after another, and their turn would be quickly: for these words are not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:6

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans ,.... A people still of late mean and low, famous only for their soothsaying, divination, and judicial astrology; but now become a powerful and warlike people, rising up under the permission of Providence to universal monarchy, and who would quickly add Judea to the rest of their dominions: that bitter and hasty nation ; a cruel and merciless people in their temper and disposition: "bitter" against the people of God and true religion, and causing... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:7

They are terrible and dreadful ,.... For the fierceness of their countenances; the number and valour of their troops; the splendour of their armour; the victories they had obtained, and the cruelty they had exercised; the fame of all which spread terror wherever they came: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves ; they will not be directed and governed by any laws of God and man, but by their own; they will do according to their will and pleasure, and none will be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses also are swifter than the leopards ,.... Creatures remarkable for their swiftness: these are creatures born of the mating of a he panther and a lioness, and not of a lion and a she panther, as some have affirmed; and which adultery is highly resented by the lion; nor will he suffer it to go unrevenged, as Pliny F21 Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16. and Philostratus F23 De Vita Apollonii, l. 2. c. 7. observe: those thus begotten differ from common lions in this, that they have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:9

They shall come all for violence ,.... Or, "the whole of it" F19 כלה "illa teta", Junius & Tremellius; "sub. gens", Pagninus, Piscator; "totus exercitus", Vatablus; "populus", Calvin. ; the whole army of the Chaldeans, everyone of them; this would be their sole view, not to do themselves justice, as might be pretended, or avenge any injuries or affronts done to them by the Jews; but purely for the sake of spoil and plunder: their faces shall sup up as the east wind : their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:10

And they shall scoff at the kings ,.... Or, "he shall" F21 והוא "et ipse", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Tarnovius, Grotius, Cocceius. , Nebuchadnezzar king of the Chaldeans, and the army with him; who would make a jest of kings and their armies that should oppose them, as being not at all a match for them; as the kings of Judah, Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, they carried captive, and all others confederate with them, in whom they trusted, as the king of Egypt particularly;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:11

Then shall his mind change ,.... The mind of the king of Babylon; not that, when he had taken Jerusalem, he altered his purpose, and laid aside his designs of attacking other nations, and returned to his own country; where he became guilty of gross idolatry, in setting up the golden image in the plain of Dura, which he required all his subjects to worship, and to which he ascribed all his victories; for, five years after this, Josephus F23 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7. says, he led... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:12

Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine holy One ?.... The prophet, foreseeing these calamities coming upon his nation and people, observes some things for their comfort in this verse; and expostulates with God in the following verses Habakkuk 1:13 about his providential dealings, in order to obtain an answer from him, which might remove the objections of his own mind, and those of other good men he personates, raised against them; being stumbled at this, that wicked men... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:5-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:12-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:12

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