WATCH. watch-tower; referring to the place. SET ME. take my station. TOWER. fortress. WATCH. look out; referring to the act. keep outlook. UNTO: or, in. ANSWER WHEN. AM REPROVED: or, get back because of my complaint.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. WRITE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 27:8). App-47 and App-92. THE VISION. Supply the logical _Ellipsis_: "[which. am about to reveal to thee]". Compare Habakkuk 1:1. UPON TABLES: i.e. boxwood tables smeared with wax. Compare Luke 1:63. THAT HE MAY R... [ Continue Reading ]
YET. deferred. APPOINTED: i.e. fixed by Jehovah for its fulfillment. AND NOT LIE. Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6), for emphasis. IT WILL NOT TARRY. Some codices, with five early printed editions (one Rabbinic, margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and will not tarry".... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6), emphasizing the twofold answer to the prophet's prayer: the fate of the wicked in the coming judgment, and the preservation and eternal lot of the righteous. Supply the _Ellipsis:_ "Behold [the proud one]". HIS: i.e. the Chaldean's of Habakkuk 1. or th... [ Continue Reading ]
TRANSGRESSETH. = is transgressing, or is acting deceitfully. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. MAN. strong man. DESIRE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ HELL. Sheol. See App-35. Compare Isaiah 5:14. IS. he [is]. PEOPLE. peoples... [ Continue Reading ]
PARABLE. Hebrew. _mashal._ PROVERB. enigma. Hebrew. _hidah,_ as in Psalms 78:2. WOE. Note the five woes in verses: Habakkuk 2:6; Habakkuk 2:9; Habakkuk 2:12, Hab 6:15, Hab 6:19. HOW LONG? i.e. for his time is short. THICK CLAY. pledges. Reference to Pentateuch App-92. Occurs in this form only he... [ Continue Reading ]
BITE: or, exact usury. VEX. shake.... [ Continue Reading ]
COVETETH... COVETOUSNESS. extorteth. gain. SET HIS NEST ON HIGH. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 24:21). POWER. hand. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the power exercised by it. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSULTED. counselled, or devised. SHAME. a shameful thing. SINNED AGAINST THY SOUL. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 16:38). SINNED. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aval._ App-44. Not the same word as in Habakkuk 1:3; Habakkuk 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ (with. _eth)_. Jehovah of Hosts Himself. App-4. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 14:21). App-92. This is the fifth and last occurance of this wondrous prophecy: Numbers 14:21.Psalms 72:19; Isaiah 6:3 (= shall be); Hab 11:9, and Habakkuk 2:14. GLORY. Compare Isaiah 66:18; Isaiah 66:19; Ezekiel 28:22;... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT PUTTEST THY BOTTLE TO HIM. that addest (or pourest) thy fury or venom (Hebrew construct form of _hemah_. heat, wrath; not of _hemeth =_ bottle) thereto. See Oxford _Gesenius,_ p. 705, under _saphak._ MAKEST HIM DRUNKEN, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 9:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THY FORESKIN BE UNCOVERED: i.e. be as one uncircumcised: i.e. uncovenanted.... [ Continue Reading ]
VIOLENCE OF LEBANON: i.e. violence [done to] Lebanon by felling its trees. WHICH MADE THEM AFRAID: or, shall make thee afraid.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUSTETH. confideth. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. DUMB IDOLS. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). Hebrew. _'elilim illemim =_ nothings [that] say nothing. Compare Jeremiah 14:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE UNTO HIM, &C. "The sequence of thought" would not be _improved,_ as suggested, by making Habakkuk 2:19 precede Habakkuk 2:18. See the Structure above. BREATH. spirit. Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9. Compare Psalms 115:4; Psalms 135:17; Jeremiah 10:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. KEEP SILENCE. Hush! Be still! So Zephaniah 1:7; Zechariah 2:13.... [ Continue Reading ]