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Verse Habakkuk 1:3. _AND CAUSE_ ME _TO BEHOLD GRIEVANCE_] עמל
_amal_, labour, toil, distress, misery, c., the common fruits of sin....
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WHY DOST THOU SHEW ME INIQUITY, AND CAUSE ME TO BEHOLD - , or rather,
“Why beholdest Thou grievance?” God seemed to reverse what He had
said by Balaam Numbers 23:21, “He hath not beheld iniquity in Ja...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
CHAPTER 1
The Judgment of Judah Through the Chaldeans Announced
_ 1. The prophet's cry to Jehovah (Habakkuk 1:1) _
2. The answer (Habakkuk 1:5)
3. The prophet's plea (H
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COMPLAINT AGAINST YAHWEH FOR HIS TOLERANCE OF WRONG-DOING. In bitter
remonstrance with Yahweh, the prophet asks how long he must cry
Violence! and look on wretchedness and trouble, robbery, strife and...
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INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avert._ (App-44.). trouble, having special
reference to the nature and consequences of evil-doing.
GRIEVANCE. oppression, or injustice. Hebrew. _'amal._ App-44.
THERE ARE THAT RA...
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_HABAKKUK'S COMPLAINT CONCERNING EVIL -- HABAKKUK 1:1-4:_ Habakkuk
identified himself simply as "the prophet." He wrote, "The burden
which Habakkuk the prophet did see." (Habakkuk 1:1) He was given a...
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AND THERE ARE THAT RAISE UP STRIFE, &C.— _And there is strife; and
contention carries it._...
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THE FIRST QUESTION. Habakkuk 1:2-4
RV. O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out
unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save. Why dost thou show me
iniquity, and look upon p...
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O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out
unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
O LORD, HOW LONG SHALL I CRY ... EVEN CRY OUT UNTO THEE OF VIOLENCE
... WHY DOST T...
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THE PROPHET'S BURDEN. THE ANSWER OF JEHOVAH
1. Burden] RM 'oracle': see on Isaiah 13:1.
2, 3. HOW LONG?.. WHY?] Even a prophet (Habakkuk 1:1) can ask such
questions. He never denies the existence of...
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THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
Habakkuk
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
Assyria was a country to the north and east of Israel. For many
years, it ruled most of the world. Nahum, Habakkuk...
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(1-4) Habakkuk complains of the apparent triumph of wickedness among
his countrymen....
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WHY DOST THOU SHEW ME INIQUITY?... — Better, _Why dost thou show me
distress and look upon grievance; oppression and violence are before
me; and there is strife, and contention exalts itself._” The
qu...
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לָ֣מָּה תַרְאֵ֤נִי אָ֨וֶן֙ וְ עָמָ֣ל
תַּבִּ֔יט...
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Habakkuk 1:1
Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 (or 8)
Yet it is the first piece which raises the most difficult questions.
All admit that it is to be dated somewhere along the line of
Jeremiah's long career...
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THE APPARENT PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED
Habakkuk 1:1-17
Habakkuk probably lived toward the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim, when the Chaldeans were preparing to invade the land.
Jerusalem was fille...
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In this first division of the Book we have the prophet's statement of
the problems which vexed his soul. The first was the apparent
indifference of Jehovah both to his prayer and to the condition of
p...
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We have the Prophet at his devotions, pleading with the Lord
concerning the sorrows and exercises of the Church. He not only
laments the iniquities of those that oppress the Lord's heritage, but
the i...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
There is no prophetic delivery among the twelve lesser books more
peculiar and characteristic than that of Habakkuk. It has no longer
the occupation with the...
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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, witho...
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First of all, the prophet complains that the evil which exists among
the people is insupportable. This is the natural effect of the working
of the Spirit of God in a heart jealous for His glory and de...
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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;
sug...
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_Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance?
for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise
up strife and contention._
Ver. 3. _Why dost thou show me in...
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_O Lord, how long shall I cry_, &c. How long shall I complain unto
thee of might overcoming right, and thou wilt not save or prevent it?
The prophet here proposes the common objection against Providen...
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
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Why dost Thou show me iniquity, permitting him to see it on every
hand, AND CAUSE ME TO BEHOLD GRIEVANCE? rather, "and Thou observest
distress inactively," seemingly paying no attention to perversenes...
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1-11 The servants of the Lord are deeply afflicted by seeing
ungodliness and violence prevail; especially among those who profess
the truth. No man scrupled doing wrong to his neighbour. We should
lo...
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WHY DOST THOU SHOW ME? it is a most unpleasing sight, and that which
troubles me and every good man, to see unjust and injurious men
without control, and unpunished, to act their iniquity; and yet, O...
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Habakkuk 1:3 show H7200 (H8686) iniquity H205 see H5027 (H8686)
trouble H5999 plundering H7701 violence H2555 strife...
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HABAKKUK'S CRY FROM HIS HEART - WHY DOES GOD NOT SEE AND ACT?
(HABAKKUK 1:2).
Habakkuk 1:2
‘O YHWH, how long shall I cry,
And you will not hear?
I cry out to you of violence,
And you will not sav...
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CONTENTS: Habakkuk's prayer concerning evil in dispersed Israel. God's
voice to Israel and Habakkuk's testimony to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk.
CONCLUSION: We must not think it strange if God som...
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Zechariah 1:1. _The burden,_ the prophecy, _which Habakkuk the prophet
saw._ Here he opens his commission, as divinely inspired with vision,
and invested with a charge which he must deliver. God laid...
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_The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see._
RESPONSIBILITIES
We can see how appropriate is the word “burden” used by the
prophets to describe their gift and duty. The obligation laid on them
oft...
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HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:2 First Cycle. Habakkuk is disappointed
that God does not seem to be answering his prayers. God’s response
shows that, although Habakkuk doesn’t realize it, his prayers are...
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HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:3 IDLY LOOK AT WRONG. It seems to
Habakkuk that God is tolerating sin instead of punishing it (see v.
Habakkuk 1:13)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.] BURDEN] (cf. Nahum 1:1).
HABAKKUK 1:2. HOW] A complaint; wickedness continued long, and God did
not interfere.
HABAKKUK 1:3. WHY] dost thou behold violence without checking it?
some;...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1:1-2:20
PART I. JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL, IN THE FORM OF A COLLOQUY BETWEEN THE
PROPHET AND GOD....
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Shall we turn at this time to the book of Habakkuk.
Very little is known concerning the personal background of Habakkuk.
Very little, nothing is known. We don't know really anything about his
backgrou...
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2 Peter 2:8; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Ezekiel 2:6; Jerem