George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Habakkuk 2:7
Bile, like worms in the grave. Cyrus will overturn the kingdom. The Rabbins pretend that Evilmerodac caused his father's body to be cut in pieces for the crows, lest he should return again. (Calmet)
Bile, like worms in the grave. Cyrus will overturn the kingdom. The Rabbins pretend that Evilmerodac caused his father's body to be cut in pieces for the crows, lest he should return again. (Calmet)
Verse 7. _SHALL THEY NOT RISE UP SUDDENLY_] Does not this refer to the _sudden_ and _unexpected taking of Babylon by Cyrus_, whose troops entered into the city through the bed of the Euphrates, whose...
SHALL NOT THEY RISE UP SUDDENLY THAT SHALL BITE THEE, AND AWAKE THAT SHALL VEX THEE? - The destruction of the wicked is ever sudden at last. Such was the flood Luke 17:26, the destruction of Sodom, of...
CHAPTER 2 The Ungodliness of the Chaldeans and Their Destruction _ 1. The waiting prophet and the message he received (Habakkuk 2:1) _ 2. The five-fold woe upon the Chaldeans (Habakkuk 2:5) Habakku...
WOES ON THE EVIL-DOER. Habakkuk 2:5 f. Woe on the insatiable conqueror, who treacherously gathers to himself the heritage of all the nations, only to be the victim of their bitterest maledictions. Ha...
BITE: or, exact usury. VEX. shake....
_WOE TO THOSE THAT ARE GREEDY AND COVETOUS -- HABAKKUK 2:1-11:_ After Habakkuk spoke his second message he said he would stand guard on the watchtower and wait for the Lord's answer. He would stand bo...
JEHOVAH'S ANSWER. Habakkuk 2:1-20 RV. I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint. And...
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? SHALL THEY NOT RISE UP SUDDENLY - the answer to the question, "how lon...
FAITH TRIUMPHANT 1-4. The view from the watchtower. 1. The prophet climbs his tower, for he must reach a vantage point, if he is to contemplate with real understanding and insight the confusion about...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Habakkuk _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 2 V1 I will stand and I will watch. I will stay on the walls (of the city). I will look to see what (God) will say to me. And I will see...
(6-8) Woe on the reckless rapacity which has spared neither life nor property....
(6-20) The destruction of the Chaldæans has hitherto been only implied. It is now plainly foretold in a denunciatory song, put into the mouths of the invader’s victims. In this song there are five str...
BITE. — This verb _nâshac_ also means “to oppress with usury,” and this is its force here. _Thy_ turn shall come, and men shall exact usury from thee. Similarly, the verb translated “vex” is, literall...
הֲ לֹ֣וא פֶ֗תַע יָק֨וּמוּ֙ נֹשְׁכֶ֔יךָ וְ יִק
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...
Habakkuk 2:1 Habakkuk 2:5 The dramatic piece Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 is succeeded by a series of fine taunt-songs, starting after an in
“THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH” Habakkuk 2:1-20 Having prayed, the prophet expected an answer and looked out for it. When it came, there would be no mistaking it. But until we see eye to eye, we must...
The proclamations fall into two parts. The first is concerned with the "puffed up," the second concerns the righteous. The "puffed up" are described as haughty, ambitious, conquering, against whom th...
Shall (g) they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall oppress thee, and thou shalt be for booty to them? (g) That is, the Medes and persians, that would destroy the Babylonians?...
What vision is this? The whole prophecy of Isaiah is called a vision. Isaiah 1:1. And that we know to have been concerning the Lord Jesus and his gospel. And is not this the same? Was not Jesus sent f...
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...
The Prophet proceeds with the subject which we have already begun to explain; for he introduces here the common taunts against the king of Babylon and the whole tyrannical empire, by which many nation...
There the prophet stops, that God in His time may explain this; watches, like a sentinel, to receive the answer of God to the anxiety of his soul. God, in order to comfort His prophet and all His fait...
SHALL NOT THEY RISE UP SUDDENLY THAT SHALL BITE THEE,.... Or, "thy usurers", or "creditors" d, as some render it; the Christians, whose money, goods, and substance, they had spoiled them of, but now s...
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? Ver. 7. _Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee?_] Rend and...
_Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee?_ Is it not just, or what thou deservest, that others should suddenly rise against thee, and bite and tear thee? It is a metaphor taken from the h...
THE INTRODUCTION AND THE FIRST WOE...
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, the Hebrew having a play upon words between the bite of a snake and the interest which the usurer demands, AND AWAKE THAT SHALL VEX THEE? rather,...
5-14 The prophet reads the doom of all proud and oppressive powers that bear hard upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, are the entangling snares of m...
SHALL THEY NOT? this question doth more fully ascertain the thing. Rise up; either grow up, or else, as men who resolve to do a thing thoroughly, get upon their feet and stand to it. The Medes and Per...
Habakkuk 2:7 creditors H5391 (H8802) up H6965 (H8799) suddenly H6621 awaken H3364 (H8799) oppress H2111 ...
THE FIVE WOES OF GOD (HABAKKUK 2:6). God now outlines to Habakkuk how He is going to finally punish Babylon for what it is, and the wonderful blessing to the whole world which will come from His acti...
THE FIRST WOE (HABAKKUK 2:6). Habakkuk 2:6 ‘Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, saying, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his. How long? And...
Habakkuk 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved._ «I shall look to God, and I shall al...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Habakkuk's testimony. Vision of coming woes. CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk. CONCLUSION: The lusts of the flash, the lusts of the eye and the pride of life are the entangl...
Zechariah 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch._ The ancient nations often had no great confidence in what is now called, The faith of treaties. The Israelites kept a watchman on the tower of Jezreel; oth...
HABAKKUK 2:2 God’s Response. The Lord assures Habakkuk that he will punish all the wicked, at the right time. ⇐ ⇔...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:6 This taunt against the Babylonians consists of five “woe oracles” (vv. Habakkuk 2:6, Habakku
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:7 DEBTORS. The loot that the Babylonians have taken from other nations is actually only “on loan” to them until a stronger nation claims it....
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 2:6. These] “nations” and “people” (Habakkuk 2:4). PARABLE] A derisive song (Isaiah 14:4; Micah 2:4), some; ode, given by
EXPOSITION HABAKKUK 2:1 § 5. _The prophet, waiting for an answer to his expostulation, is bidden to write the oracle in plain characters, because its fulfilment is certain._ HABAKKUK 2:1 Habakkuk s...
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...
1 Thessalonians 5:3; Daniel 5:25; Ecclesiastes 10:8; Isaiah 13:1;...