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Habakkuk 3:9

Thy bow was made quite naked, drawn forth from the quiver and made ready to send forth its arrow, according to the oaths of the tribes, even Thy word, literally, "sworn are the scourges by the word, rods of chastisement are sworn by the word," that is, the chastisements of Jehovah are definitely decided upon and even supported by oaths. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers, as when masses of water rush from the mountains, or when tidal waves cut deep gullies into the earth.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 9. _THY BOW WAS MADE QUITE NAKED_] That is, it was _drawn out_ _of its case_; as the _arrows_ had their _quiver_, so the _bows_ had their _cases_. A fine _oriental bow_ and _bow-case_, with _qu...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THY BOW WAS MADE QUITE NAKED - The word is repeated for emphasis. Literally, (In) “nakedness, it was laid naked;” the sheath being laid aside and cast away, as Isaiah says, Isaiah 22:6. “Kir laid bare...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 The Vision of the Coming of the Lord _ 1. The prophet's prayer (Habakkuk 3:1) _ 2. The coming of the Lord for judgment and redemption (Habakkuk 3:3) 3. The effect upon the prophet (Habak...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HABAKKUK 3. THE PRAYER OF HABAKKUK. Habakkuk 3:1. Shigionoth: probably plural of _shiggaion_ (Psalms 7:1, p. 373). But LXX reads _n e ginoth_, on the stringed instruments (_cf._ Psalms 4:1;...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    In answer to his prayer, Yahweh comes from Sinai, riding on His victorious chariots, surrounded by glory and splendour, His bow uncovered and His quiver filled with shafts, making the mountains to sin...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THY BOW. [Nay] Thy how, &c. NAKED. bare. ACCORDING TO THE OATHS OF THE TRIBES... SELAH. This second "Selah" (see App-66) is to connect the remarkable parenthetic statement with the continuation of th...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _GOD'S POWER AND WRATH WERE DEMONSTRATED -- HABAKKUK 3:8-15:_ God was not disturbed over disobedience of the rivers or the seas. His concern was over a rebellious people. His horses and chariots were...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE EARTH, &C.— The 10th verse should certainly begin with this clause, where the prophet begins a new subject. Green renders it, Thou cleavedst the dry land into rivers. See comme...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WAS THE LORD DISPLEASED AGAINST THE RIVERS— That is, "When thou appearedst, O Jehovah, at the Red Sea, in thy chariot of war, with thy bow drawn in thy hand, was it that thou wast displeased with the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER XVIII THE PROPHET'S POETIC PRAYER VISION OF GOD IN JUDGEMENT. Habakkuk 3:1-15 RV. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth. O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afra...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. THY BOW WAS MADE QUITE NAKED - i:e., was drawn forth from its cove...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEHOVAH COMES TO JUDGMENT This is one of the most brilliant poems in the OT. It was written by a man of imagination as well as of faith. It is not quite certain whether Habakkuk 3:8 are intended to re...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Habakkuk _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 (These are) the words that the *prophet Habakkuk prayed. (He used music called) Shigionoth. V2 *LORD, I have heard (what people) s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    III. (1-15) A hymn describing a future self-manifestation of Jehovah on Israel’s behalf, accompanied by the signs and wonders of the early history. It is impossible to give the English reader an idea...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (3-15) Habakkuk describes the “Theophany” or self-manifestation of Jehovah, which is to introduce the desired deliverance. The Authorised Version has unfortunately rendered all the verbs in this secti...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THY BOW WAS MADE QUITE NAKED. — Better, _Thy bow shall be bared, even the chastisements sworn by Thy word. Selah. With rivers shalt thou cleave the earth._ God’s chastisements, which are compared in P...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עֶרְיָ֤ה תֵעֹור֙ קַשְׁתֶּ֔ךָ שְׁבֻעֹ֥ות מַטֹּ֖ות אֹ֣מֶר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Habakkuk 3:1 The third chapter, an Ode or Rhapsody, is ascribed to Habakkuk by its title. This, however, does not prove its authenticity: the title is too like those assigned to the Psalms in the peri...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE FAITH THAT IS INVINCIBLE Habakkuk 3:1-19 This psalm was intended to be sung by the captives during the Exile, which was near. In Habakkuk 3:3-15 there is a recital of the great events in the past...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the proclamation concerning the righteous, the majesty of Jehovah and the consequent triumph of His people are set forth. It consists of a psalm which is a prayer. In the first movement the prophe...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thy (k) bow was made quite naked, [according] to the (l) oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou (m) didst cleave the earth with rivers. (k) That is, your power. (l) For he had not only ma...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Take. Septuagint bend thy bow over the sceptres, says the Lord, Dinpsalma." Sela is neglected by the Vulgate or (Haydock) by S. Jerome, as having no meaning. (Calmet) --- Yet we find in the edition of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is impossible by any comment, even if written with the pen of an angel, to add any beauty to this most sublime passage. I retire from it therefore, and only beg the Reader, as he reads it, to conne...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet explains the same thing more clearly in this verse—that the power of God was formerly manifested for no other reason but that the children of Abraham might be taught to expect from him a c...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    This answer brings home to the heart of the prophet the solemn presence of God, and leads him to look for a revival of God's working in the midst of the people in grace, and turns him back to God's fi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 wa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. Ver. 9. _Thy bow was made quite naked_] _sc._ Out of the case. H...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Was the Lord_, &c. After the description of Jehovah, given in the preceding verses, the first of his wonderful works, recounted by the prophet, is the passage through the Red sea, where he represents...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE EARTH WITH RIVERS: Or, thou didst cleave the rivers of the earth...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    3-15 God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THY BOW; one part of armour put for the whole; or else the Lord here is represented as armed, in readiness to smite through all enemies, having his bow in his hand. WAS MADE QUITE NAKED; the case take...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Habakkuk 3:9 bow H7198 quite H6181 ready H5783 (H8735) Oaths H7621 sworn H562 arrows H4294 Selah H5542 divided...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘You divided the earth with rivers, The mountains saw you and were afraid, The tempest of waters passed by, The deep uttered his voice, And lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood sti...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘The bow was made quite bare, The oaths to the tribes were a spoken word. Selah. (Consider that!)' This probably denotes the moment of entry into Canaan. God prepared His bow for action and confirmed...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Habakkuk's answer of faith to Jehovah. The terror of God's wrath against sinners. CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk. CONCLUSION: The God of nature can alter and control all the powers of nature to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Zechariah 3:1. _A prayer of Habakkuk,_ by which he cheered and encouraged the church, and his own soul, under all the gloom that overspread the state of his country. _Shigionoth,_ the name of a pensiv...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even Thy Word._ --The prophet’s closing prayer is that God would, in wrath, remember mercy. For this he is encouraged to hope by a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _God came from Teman._ GOD POETICALLY PORTRAYED AND PRACTICALLY REMEMBERED The Bible contains many grand songs and odes. But this song of Habakkuk stands in peerless splendour amongst them all. I. P...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 3:1 Habakkuk’s Prayer. Habakkuk asks for a new demonstration of God’s wrath and mercy, such as God gave so powerfully in the past. He closes with a confession of faith and tr...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 3:9 MANY ARROWS probably describes thunderbolts. SPLIT THE EARTH. An image of thunderstorms and floods cutting through the desert....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 3:8.] Now judgment is executed. The description rests upon two facts: dividing of Red Sea and of Jordan (Exodus 15:18; Psalms 104:3;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HABAKKUK 3:1 Part II. PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK. HABAKKUK 3:1 § 1. _The title._ A PRAYER. There is only one form

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 3 it is a psalm, it is, A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth (Zechariah 3:1). Now about the seventh psalm or so, I think it is upon the Shiggaion, which is the same thing,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:4; Deuteronomy 32:23; Exodus 17:6; Genesis 15:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thy bow — One part of armour is put for the whole. The Lord is represented as armed, in readiness to smite through all his enemies. According to the oaths — In pursuance of his oath made to our father...

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