Habakkuk 3:3-16 NKJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3-15

It has been the usual practice of God's people, when they have been in distress and ready to fall into despair, to help themselves by recollecting their experiences, and reviving them, considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times (Ps. 77:5), and pleading with God in prayer, as he is pleased sometimes to plead them with himself. Isa. 63:11; Then he remembered the days of old. This is that which the prophet does here, and he looks as far back as the first forming of them into a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 3:16-19

Within the compass of these few lines we have the prophet in the highest degree both of trembling and triumphing, such are the varieties both of the state and of the spirit of God's people in this world. In heaven there shall be no more trembling, but everlasting triumphs. I. The prophet had foreseen the prevalence of the church's enemies and the long continuance of the church's troubles; and the sight made him tremble, Hab. 3:16. Here he goes on with what he had said Hab. 3:2; ?I have heard... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3

God came from Teman ,.... Or, "may God come from Teman" F20 יבוא "veniet", so some in Calvin, Van Till. ; since it is part of the prayer of Habakkuk: or, as "from Teman" F21 מתימן "sicuti olim ex Theman", Van Till. ; as he of old came from thence, a city in the land of Edom, Jeremiah 49:7 it was five miles from Petra, in Idumea, where was Mount Seir, from whence the Lord arose, and shone forth from Mount Paran, at the giving of the law, Deuteronomy 33:2 to which the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:4

And his brightness was as the light ,.... Of fire, of devouring fire on the top of the mount, to which the sight of his glory was like, Exodus 24:16 to which Kimchi refers it. Aben Ezra thinks the pillar of fire is intended, in which the Lord went before his people in the wilderness, Exodus 13:21 or as the light and splendour of Bereshith, as the Targum, of that primogenital light which was produced on the first day of the creation; or as the light of the seven days of the creation, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:5

Before him went the pestilence ,.... Either in the land of Egypt, when he marched through that, and slew all their firstborn, Psalm 78:50 or rather which he sent before him, and Israel his people among the nations of the land of Canaan, with other diseases and judgments, and destroyed them to make way for his people, which may be here alluded to, Exodus 23:27 and may point at the judgments of God, and those pestilential diseases which seized upon the persecutors of the Christians, both... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and measured the earth ,.... This alludes to the ark of the Lord, the symbol of his presence, standing and abiding at Gilgal for the space of fourteen years, while the land of Canaan was subdued by Joshua; and then measured out by him, and divided by lot, as an inheritance to the children of Israel, according to the direction and appointment of the Lord, Joshua 13:1 &c.;: here it may have respect to the mission of the apostles into the various parts of the world, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:7

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction ,.... The same with Cush or Ethiopia; hence the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it, "the tents of the Ethiopians"; and these are the same with "the curtains of Midian" in the next clause, tents being made of curtains, and the Ethiopians and Midianites the same people; so the daughter of the priest of Midian, whom Moses married, is called an Ethiopian woman, Exodus 2:21 . This seems to have respect to that panic which seized the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:8

Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers ?.... Referring, as is commonly thought, either to the rivers in Egypt turned into blood, which was one of the plagues of that land, Exodus 7:20 when the resentment of the Lord was not so much against them as against the Egyptians; and as a punishment of them for drowning the infants of the Israelites in them, and in order to obtain the dismissal of his people from that land: or else to the river Jordan,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:9

Thy bow was made quite naked ,.... It was took out of its case, and arrows out of their quiver, and these made use of against the enemies of his people: this is put for all weapons of war; the sword was unsheathed, and all military weapons employed, and the power of the Lord was exerted; or, as the Targum, "the Lord was revealed in his power;' fighting the battles of his people, as in the times of Joshua: according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah . That is, to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw thee, and they trembled ,.... At the power and presence of God, as Sinai of old; See Gill on Habakkuk 3:6 by which are signified mighty people and nations, kings and great men, struck with terror at the amazing providence of God in the world, on the behalf of his own people, and against their enemies; see Revelation 6:14 , the overflowing of the water passed by ; which is usually referred to the overflowing of the river Jordan at the time of the passage of the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 3:16-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:10

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