Habakkuk 3:2

Thy speech. — Better, thy report, as in margin. The tone is that of Psalms 44:1, “We have heard with our ears O God! our fathers have told us... ” Jehovah’s doings at the beginning of the years are well known; the prophet seeks that they may be manifested again, now in the midst of the years. The petition “in wrath remember mercy,” is explained by Habakkuk 1:5 et seq. It implies — though Thy visitation be well deserved, yet mercifully limit its duration, as on former occasions.