Habacuque 1:3-5 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:1-4

We are told no more in the title of this book (which we have, Hab. 1:1) than that the penman was a prophet, a man divinely inspired and commissioned, which is enough (if that be so, we need not ask concerning his tribe or family, or the place of his birth), and that the book itself is the burden which he saw; he was as sure of the truth of it as if he had seen it with his bodily eyes already accomplished. Here, in these verses, the prophet sadly laments the iniquity of the times, as one... read more

Matthew Henry

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:3

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance ?.... That is, wicked men, and such as give a great deal of trouble vexation, and grief to others, by their rapine and oppression; suggesting that he could not turn his eyes any where, but such persons presented themselves to his view; and that their wicked actions were performed by them openly and publicly, in the sight of all, without any shame or fear. So the Targum, "why do I see oppressors, and behold those that do the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked ,.... Is not put into execution against offenders: the civil magistrates, whose office it is to do justice according to law, are dilatory, and do not proceed with vigour and spirit against the transgressors of it, and in favour of honest and good men oppressed: or "it intermits" F18 תפוג "intermittitur", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Burkius; פוג "est, animi deliquium pati", Tarnovius. , or is "intermitted"; it is like a man whose pulse... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:3

And cause me to behold grievance - עמל amal , labor, toil, distress, misery, etc., the common fruits of sin. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:4

The law is slacked - They pay no attention to it; it has lost all its vigor, its restraining and correcting power, it is not executed; right judgment is never pronounced; and the poor righteous man complains in vain that he is grievously oppressed by the wicked, and by those in power and authority. That the utmost depravity prevailed in the land of Judah is evident from these verses; and can we wonder, then, that God poured out such signal judgments upon them? When judgment doth not proceed... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:5

Behold ye among the heathen - Instead of בגוים baggoyim , among the nations or heathen, some critics think we should read בגדים bogedim , transgressors; and to the same purpose the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic have read; and thus it is quoted by St. Paul Acts 13:41 . But neither this, nor any tantamount reading, is found in any of the MSS. yet collated. Newcome translates, "See, ye transgressors, and behold a wonder, and perish." I will work a work in your days - As he is... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:3

Verse 3 He afterwards adds, How long wilt thou show me iniquity, and make me to see trouble? Here the Prophet briefly relates the cause of his indignation,—that he could not, without great grief, yea, without anguish of mind, behold such evils prevailing among God’s chosen people; for they who apply this to the Chaldeans, do so strainedly, and without any necessity, and they have not observed the reason which I have stated—that the Prophet does not here teach the Jews, but prepares them for a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:4

Verse 4 The Prophet confirms here what I have already said, and brings an excuse for his zeal; he proves that he was not without reason led to so great a warmth; for he saw that the law of God was trodden as it were under foot; he saw men so hardened in every kind of sin, that all religion and the fear of God had nearly been extinguished. Hence I have already said, that the Prophet was not here impelled by a carnal passion, as it often happens to us, when we defend ourselves from wrongs done to... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:1-4

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:4

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 1:4

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