Thou (h) gavest shameful counsel to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul.
(h) Signifying that the covetous man is the ruin of his own house, when he thinks to enrich it be cruelty and oppression.
Verse Habakkuk 2:10. _HAST SINNED_ AGAINST _THY SOUL._] Thy _life_ is forfeited by thy crimes....
THOU HAST CONSULTED SHAME TO THY HOUSE, THE CUTTING OFF MANY PEOPLE, AND SINNING AGAINST THY SOUL - The wicked, whether out of passion or with his whole mind and deliberate choice and will, takes that...
CHAPTER 2 The Ungodliness of the Chaldeans and Their Destruction _ 1. The waiting prophet and the message he received (Habakkuk 2:1) _ 2. The five-fold woe upon the Chaldeans (Habakkuk 2:5) Habakku...
WOES ON THE EVIL-DOER. Habakkuk 2:5 f. Woe on the insatiable conqueror, who treacherously gathers to himself the heritage of all the nations, only to be the victim of their bitterest maledictions. Ha...
CONSULTED. counselled, or devised. SHAME. a shameful thing. SINNED AGAINST THY SOUL. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 16:38). SINNED. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44....
_WOE TO THOSE THAT ARE GREEDY AND COVETOUS -- HABAKKUK 2:1-11:_ After Habakkuk spoke his second message he said he would stand guard on the watchtower and wait for the Lord's answer. He would stand bo...
JEHOVAH'S ANSWER. Habakkuk 2:1-20 RV. I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint. And...
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. THOU HAST CONSULTED SHAME TO THY HOUSE BY CUTTING OFF MANY PEOPLE. Maurer, more literally, 'Tho...
2:10 against (f-16) Or 'endangered.'...
FAITH TRIUMPHANT 1-4. The view from the watchtower. 1. The prophet climbs his tower, for he must reach a vantage point, if he is to contemplate with real understanding and insight the confusion about...
CONSULTED] i.e. contrived: cp. Micah 6:5. 12-14. The fourth woe. Every fabric reared upon iniquity is doomed to destruction. The triumph of the kingdom of God, and of that alone, is sure. The world-c...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Habakkuk _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 2 V1 I will stand and I will watch. I will stay on the walls (of the city). I will look to see what (God) will say to me. And I will see...
(6-20) The destruction of the Chaldæans has hitherto been only implied. It is now plainly foretold in a denunciatory song, put into the mouths of the invader’s victims. In this song there are five str...
(9-11) Woe on the aggrandisement of the new dynasty by force and cunning....
AND HAST SINNED... — Literally, _and sinning in thy soul._ All the time the Babylonian oppressor was plundering these peoples he was involving his soul in guilt. (Comp. Habakkuk 1:11.)...
יָעַ֥צְתָּ בֹּ֖שֶׁת לְ בֵיתֶ֑ךָ קְצֹות ־עַמִּ֥ים...
Habakkuk 2:1 Habakkuk 2:5 The dramatic piece Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 is succeeded by a series of fine taunt-songs, starting after an in
“THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH” Habakkuk 2:1-20 Having prayed, the prophet expected an answer and looked out for it. When it came, there would be no mistaking it. But until we see eye to eye, we must...
The proclamations fall into two parts. The first is concerned with the "puffed up," the second concerns the righteous. The "puffed up" are described as haughty, ambitious, conquering, against whom th...
_House. Thinking to establish thy family for ever, thou hast proved its ruin by avarice, &c. (Worthington) --- This is applied to Nabuchodonosor, but may be as well explained of Joakim, who oppressed...
What vision is this? The whole prophecy of Isaiah is called a vision. Isaiah 1:1. And that we know to have been concerning the Lord Jesus and his gospel. And is not this the same? Was not Jesus sent f...
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...
The Prophet again confirms the truth, that those who count themselves happy, imagining that they are like God, busy themselves in vain; for God will turn to shame whatever they think to be their glory...
There the prophet stops, that God in His time may explain this; watches, like a sentinel, to receive the answer of God to the anxiety of his soul. God, in order to comfort His prophet and all His fait...
THOU HAST CONSULTED SHAME TO THY HOUSE,.... Instead of bringing real honour and glory to their church, and that into the esteem of men, by such covetousness, ambition, and arrogance, they brought it i...
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul. Ver. 10. _Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, &c._] Thou hast taken a wrong course both for...
_Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house _ “Which Nebuchadnezzar strove to aggrandize, and which Cyrus cut off.” Newcome. The translation of the LXX. accords exactly with ours: but t...
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, for the Chaldean's counsel, as outlined in the preceding verse, was bound to bring disgrace upon him, BY CUTTING OFF MANY PEOPLE, the plan to bring about the de...
THE FOUR REMAINING WOES...
5-14 The prophet reads the doom of all proud and oppressive powers that bear hard upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, are the entangling snares of m...
WOE! it is a general and comprehensive threat against all tyrants and oppressors. To him; every one that is guilty of the sin. THAT COVETETH AN EVIL COVETOUSNESS; or driveth a trade of oppression, to...
Habakkuk 2:10 shameful H1322 counsel H3289 (H8804) house H1004 off H7096 (H8800) many H7227 peoples H5971 sin...
THE FIVE WOES OF GOD (HABAKKUK 2:6). God now outlines to Habakkuk how He is going to finally punish Babylon for what it is, and the wonderful blessing to the whole world which will come from His acti...
THE SECOND WOE (HABAKKUK 2:9). Habakkuk 2:9 ‘Woe to him who obtains an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest high up, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil. You have devised sham...
Habakkuk 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved._ «I shall look to God, and I shall al...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Habakkuk's testimony. Vision of coming woes. CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk. CONCLUSION: The lusts of the flash, the lusts of the eye and the pride of life are the entangl...
Zechariah 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch._ The ancient nations often had no great confidence in what is now called, The faith of treaties. The Israelites kept a watchman on the tower of Jezreel; oth...
_Thou hast consulted shame to thy house._ CONSULTING SHAME The prophet again confirms the truth, that those who count themselves happy, imagining that they are like God, busy themselves in vain; for...
_Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house._ COVETOUSNESS AND SELF-TRUST I. The national wrongs here indicated. 1. Coveting the possessions of others. “Woe to him that coveteth an e...
HABAKKUK 2:2 God’s Response. The Lord assures Habakkuk that he will punish all the wicked, at the right time. ⇐ ⇔...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:6 This taunt against the Babylonians consists of five “woe oracles” (vv. Habakkuk 2:6, Habakku
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 2:9. Woe] the second, against establishing a permanent settlement by godless gain. EVIL] Covetousness surpassingly evil and fatal to itself. HOUSE] Not the palace but the dy...
EXPOSITION HABAKKUK 2:1 § 5. _The prophet, waiting for an answer to his expostulation, is bidden to write the oracle in plain characters, because its fulfilment is certain._ HABAKKUK 2:1 Habakkuk s...
Shall we turn at this time to the book of Habakkuk. Very little is known concerning the personal background of Habakkuk. Very little, nothing is known. We don't know really anything about his backgrou...
1 Kings 2:23; 2 Kings 10:7; 2 Kings 9:26; Isaiah 14:20; Isaiah 33:11
Thou — Nebuchadnezzar....