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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw thee. — The earthquake at Sinai and the dividing of the Red Sea, the waters of which were lifted up “as a wall on the right hand and on the left” of Israel, lie at the basis of this description. This imagery, however, of sweeping floods and quaking mountains is usual in poetical accounts of Divine interposition.

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See also Habakkuk 3:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Habakkuk 3:10. _THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE_] This is the continued answer to the questions in Habakkuk 3:8. These are figures highly poetic, to show with what ease God accomplished the most arduous...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE AND THEY TREMBLED - literally, “they tremble.” While man is insensate, inanimate nature feels and attests the presence of its Maker. “It saw it trembles.” To see, feel, tremble...

  • 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

    THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 19:18). App-92. Compare Psalms 114:4. THE OVERFLOWING, &C. Referring to the Jordan. Compare Joshua 3:15;...

  • 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

    _HABAKKUK 3:10_. The mountains saw thee, and were in pangs: see Psalms 77:16; Psalms 114:4. Habakkuk 3:10. The overflowing,

  • 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

    The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE - even as God, with his, all-...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רָא֤וּךָ יָחִ֨ילוּ֙ הָרִ֔ים זֶ֥רֶם מַ֖יִם עָבָ֑ר...

  • 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

    The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water (n) passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high. (n) He alludes to the Red Sea and Jordan, which...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Grieved. They seemed full of surprise, as in labour, (Hebrew) and the abyss spoke in its manner, (Calmet) obeying thy voice, and letting the Israelites pass. (Haydock) (Psalm lxxiii. 15., and cxiii. 3...

  • 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

    Habakkuk proceeds with the history of the people’s redemption. We have said what his object was, even this that the people, though in an extreme state of calamity, might yet entertain hope of God’s fa...

  • 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

    THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE, [AND] THEY TREMBLED,.... At the power and presence of God, as Sinai of old; Habakkuk 3:6 by which are signified mighty people and nations, kings and great men, struck with terr...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high. Ver. 10. _The mountains saw thee, and they trembled...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled, shaken by storms and earthquakes; THE OVERFLOWING OF THE WATER PASSED BY, a torrent of water, from subterranean sources or as the result of a cloudburst, rus...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEHOVAH'S MAJESTIC COMING TO JUDGMENT...

  • 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

    THE MOUNTAINS; literally taken, it is an elegant hyperbole, expressing to us the glorious effects of God's power and presence; and thus Sinai and the contiguous hills, the whole mount, EXODUS 19:18, a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Habakkuk 3:10 mountains H2022 saw H7200 (H8804) trembled H2342 (H8799) overflowing H2230 water H4325 by H5674 ...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _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 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

    Exodus 14:22; Exodus 19:16; Habakkuk 3:6; Hebrews 11:29; Isaiah 11:

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Overflowing — The inundation which at that season was wont to be very great in and round Jordan, passed away at the word of God; the waters below flowed, and ran from those above, which stood on a hea...

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