BURDEN. See note on Nahum 1:1. did see. The Hebrew accent places the chief pause on this verb, to emphasize the fact that the _giving_ of the vision was of more importance than what was revealed by it.. second and lesser pause is placed on "burden", leaving "Habakkuk" as being less important. The ve... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. CRY. cry for help in distress; as in Psalms 18:6; Psalms 18:41; Psalms 22:24. Compare Job 19:7; Jeremiah 20:8. Showing that the cry is not personal, but made in the name of all who suffered from the evil times. CRY OUT. cry with. loud voice, implying the complaint.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 RAISE UP.. reading is found in some codices (named in the _Massorah),_ "I had to endure". STRIFE AND... [ Continue Reading ]
SLACKED. benumbed. JUDGMENT. justice. THE WICKED. a lawless one: looking forward from the Chaldeans to the future Antichrist. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. THE RIGHTEOUS. the just one (Art. with Hebrew. _'eth)_ WRONG. perverted. PROCEEDETH. goeth forth.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Look ye. For emphasis, introducing the change to Jehovah's answer. Quoted in Acts 13:41. Compare Isaiah 29:14. BEHOLD... REGARD... WONDER. Note the Figure of speech _Anabasis_ (App-6). HEATHEN. nations. WHICH YE -WILL NOT BELIEVE. Some codices read "yet ye will not believe".... [ Continue Reading ]
I RAISE UP, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49; Deuteronomy 28:5). App-92. THEIRS. Hebrew his; and so throughout this chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY. It. JUDGMENT. decision. DIGNITY. elevation. themselves. itself. Compare Isaiah 10:8; Isaiah 10:13; Isaiah 10:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
MORE FIERCE. keener. SHALL FLY AS THE EAGLE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49; Deuteronomy 28:50). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL FOR VIOLENCE: i.e. not for conquest, but for destruction. FACES. aspect, intent, or eagerness, SUP UP, &C.. swallow up (as in Job 39:24), as the Palestine burning east wind withers up and destroys all green things. AS THE SAND. Figure of speech _Paroemia_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM. it, as above (Habakkuk 1:6). heap DUST. heap up mounds. TAKE IT. capture it: i.e. every stronghold.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIND. spirit. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. OVER. through. GOD. Hebrew. _'eloah_ (App-4. V): i.e. his object of worship.... [ Continue Reading ]
ART THOU NOT... ? Note the change of subject, as shown in the Structure above. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. WE SHALL NOT DIE. This is one of the eighteen emendations of the _Sopherim_ (see App-33), which they say they made because it was considered offensive to say this of Jehovah; hence, the one... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU ART, &C. Note the Fig, _Synchoresis_ (App-6). EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. INIQUITY. perverseness, or wrong. Hebrew. _'amal._ App-44. Not the same word as in Habakkuk 1:3, or Habakkuk 2:12. THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. Looking forward to the Antichrist.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGLE. hook. DRAG. a fish-net. Occurs only here (verses: Habakkuk 1:15; Habakkuk 1:16) and in Isaiah 19:8. Greek. _sagene._ See App-122. Italian _seine sagena,_ whence (with. different vowel) the Greek verb _sageneuo =_ to sweep [a country] clear.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAT. fertile, or rich. PLENTEOUS. fat.... [ Continue Reading ]