The five woes which God pronounced upon evil doers restored Habakkuk’s confidence in Yahweh’s commitment to justice. They form the remainder of chapter 2 and have primary and secondary applications as follows.
Primarily the prophecy applies to the Chaldean power which destroyed and oppressed…
A Psalm expressing his Hope with Thanksgiving. He Celebrates the Omnipotence of Yahweh and Rejoices in the Coming Victory over all Nations and the Deliverance of Israel.
Analysis “A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth”. This is the superscription of the Psalm which follows. It…
3:4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
“his brightness was as the light”
1 The figure of the sun is taken from Deut 33:2. See notes verse 3.
2 On the spiritual plain Jesus Christ is the “light of the wor…
1:1-4 Habakkuk Complains to God About Judah’s Lawlessness and the Triumph of Iniquity
1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. RSV – “The oracle of God which Habakkuk the prophet saw.”
“The burden” – Hebrew – ‘masa’ – an oracle, revelation, utterance or prophecy. In…
As Chapter 2 commences, God again answers Habakkuk. The argumentative prophet is told that he must faithfully await the outworking of Divine justice. He had presumed to question God’s justice without full knowledge of His will and had drawn wrong conclusions in chapter 1:12-17. He had not believ…
The description of Israel’s devastation was so terrifying that Habakkuk is faced with a new problem. The punishment for one evil was creating an even greater evil and the problem of reconciling this with Yahweh’s character was perplexing. From the fact that there is no mention of Israel survivin…
1:6 For, lo, I raise up (RSV ‘I am rousing up’) the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation (Roth ‘bitter and headlong nation’) which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
“For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans”- It is possible …
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some men count slackness, but the vision awaits its time; it hastens to its end—it will not lie. If it seems slow wait for it, it will surely come, it will not delay. With this assurance before him, Habakkuk had come to learn as we all must do, that,…
65:11–16 The fearful end of apostates is compared with the joy and blessedness of the elect
65:11 “But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that (1) forget my holy mountain, that (2) prepare a table for that troop [Heb gad, RSV Fortune, See Gen 30:11; 49:19], and that furnish the drink offeri…
Isaiah 65:11–25 “For, behold, I create a new heavens and a new earth” Read More »
Isaiah 66, the closing chapter in this wonderful prophecy, is wide-ranging, covering in summary and bringing to a climax its main themes. In the opening verses Yahweh defines where He truly dwells (v1,2). Apostates who persecuted true believers will be put to shame while their victims will be consol…
Isaiah 66:1-10 “Where is the Place of My Rest?” Read More »
