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Verse Habakkuk 3:16. _WHEN I HEARD, MY BELLY TREMBLED_] The prophet,
having finished his account of the wonders done by Jehovah, in
bringing their fathers from Egypt into the promised land, now retur...
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WHEN I HEARD - , better, “I heard and ...” The prophet sums up,
resuming that same declaration with which he had begun, “I heard, I
was afraid.” Only now he expresses far more strongly both his awe at...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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WHEN. HEARD. See the Structure (p. 1269).
BELLY. body.
VOICE. voice [saying].
ROTTENNESS. decay. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and
Syriac, read "restlessness".
MYSELF. Place. full stop...
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_HABAKKUK'S RESPONSE TO GOD'S MESSAGE -- HABAKKUK 3:16-19:_ When
Habakkuk heard God's message he responded in fear. He knew that
destruction was coming upon his nation. He also knew that later God
wou...
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WHEN I HEARD, MY BELLY TREMBLED; MY LIPS QUIVERED, &C.— The prophet,
having recounted, for the present encouragement of the faithful, the
wonderful works which God had formerly done for his people, re...
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HYMN OF FAITH. Habakkuk 3:16-19
RV. I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice;
Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because
I must wait quietly for the day...
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When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice:
rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I
might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people,...
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3:16 invader (a-35) Or 'his overcomer.' people. (b-41) Or 'when he
that rusheth in troops upon us shall come up against the people.' Cf.
Genesis 49:19 ....
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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...
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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...
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(10-18) All the verbs in these verses are misrendered as regards
tense. (See note on 3-15.)...
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THAT I MIGHT REST... — Better, _that I should be resting quiet in
the day of trouble, when he cometh up against the people who is to
oppress them.
_...
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(16-19) Habakkuk now reverts abruptly to the Divine sentence of
Habakkuk 1:5 _et seq.,_ and describes with what emotion he meditates
on the coming disasters, and on his own inability to prevent them....
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שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי ׀ וַ תִּרְגַּ֣ז
בִּטְנִ֗י לְ קֹול֙...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I have heard, &c., viz., the evils that are now coming upon the
Israelites for their sins; and that shall come hereafter upon all
impenitent sinners: and the foresight that I have of these miseries
ma...
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If we read these verses as we ought to read them, implying the
spiritual effect wrought upon the mind of the Prophet, and in like
manner what may be supposed in the same way to influence every child
o...
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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...
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Those interpreters are mistaken in my view, who connect the verb, “I
have heard,” with the last verse, as though the Prophet had said,
that he had conceived dread from those evidences of God’s power:...
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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...
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WHEN I HEARD, MY BELLY TREMBLED,.... His bowels, his heart within him,
at the report made of what would come to pass in future time; and not
so much at hearing of the judgments of God that should come...
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When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice:
rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I
might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people,...
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_When I heard, my belly trembled_ The prophet, having recounted, for
the present encouragement of the faithful, the wonderful works which
God had formerly wrought for his people, here returns again to...
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A PLEA FOR MERCY...
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When I heard, my belly trembled, namely, with terror at the revelation
of the mighty judgment of Jehovah, MY LIPS QUIVERED AT THE VOICE, so
that he was unable to steady them; ROTTENNESS ENTERED INTO M...
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INVADE THEM:
Or, cut them in pieces...
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16-19 When we see a day of trouble approach, it concerns us to
prepare. A good hope through grace is founded in holy fear. The
prophet looked back upon the experiences of the church in former ages,
a...
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WHEN I HEARD, what dreadful desolations God threatened against Israel,
HABAKKUK 1:5, for of those he now speaketh and meditateth, having
finished his elegant description of God's wonderful works of me...
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Habakkuk 3:16 heard H8085 (H8804) body H990 trembled H7264 (H8799)
lips H8193 quivered H6750 (H8804) voice...
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‘I heard and my belly trembled,
My lips quivered at the sound (‘voice'),
Rottenness entered into my bones,
And I trembled in my place,
I will rest in the day of trouble,
When he comes up against...
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Zechariah 3:16
We know things which do tremble that they may rest. "I tremble that I
may rest" say the magnet, the planet, the bird. So says the heart in
its language, the soul in its sorrowings. I tr...
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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...
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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...
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_And I trembled in myself._
HORROR OF GOD
I. It is an abnormal state of mind. The benevolent character of God,
and the moral constitution of the soul are sufficient to show that it
was never intended...
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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...
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HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 3:16 I HEAR. Habakkuk realizes he must
wait patiently while his people are punished, and then God will
unleash his power against the Babylonians....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Habakkuk 3:16. Trembled] The prophet describes his own feelings at the
coming of Jehovah: first, fear and trembling; then, exulting joy
(Habakkuk 3:18). “The alarm pervades his whole...
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EXPOSITION
HABAKKUK 3:1
Part II. PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK.
HABAKKUK 3:1
§ 1. _The title._ A PRAYER. There is only one form
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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,...
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2 Kings 24:1; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Daniel 10:8; Dan
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When I heard — What dreadful desolations God threatened against
Israel. My heart trembled — Another effect of surprising fears and
astonishment. Rottenness — A decay of all my strength. That I might
r...