Habakkuk 3
19 verses
Habakkuk concludes his prophecy with a prayer-psalm that begins in trembling petition—the prophet has heard the report of the Lord's deeds and is afraid, asking that the Lord's work be revealed in the midst of the years and that compassion be remembered amid wrath. The prophet then recounts God's mighty acts in Israel's history: the theophany at Mount Sinai when the mountains quaked and the everlasting hills bowed low, the exodus deliverance when the Lord marched through the sea and parted the waters, and the conquest when divine arrows shot forth and the sun and moon stood still. Habakkuk's language crescendos into a vision of cosmic proportions in which the Lord advances for judgment, pestilence marching before His face, and diseases following at His heels, shaking the earth and causing nations to tremble. Yet even as Habakkuk contemplates judgment and calamity, he arrives at a posture of radical trust: though the fig tree does not bud and the vine yields no fruit, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though flocks are cut off from the fold and stalls are empty of cattle, he will rejoice in the Lord and exult in the God of his salvation. This resolution—where faith triumphs over material circumstance and joy persists amid devastation—represents the maturation of Habakkuk's spiritual struggle from protest to praise. In redemptive history, Habakkuk's psalm demonstrates that faith is not optimism about earthly prosperity but rather trust in God's ultimate purposes and goodness regardless of present circumstances, a message of profound relevance to exiled and suffering believers.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
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O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
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God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
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And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
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Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
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He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
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I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
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Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
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Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
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We bring nothing; He provides everything.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. We bring nothing; He provides everyth...
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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.
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The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
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Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
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It implies covenant loyalty, steadfast love that never wavers.. We bring nothing; He provides everything.. This is one o...
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Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
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Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
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Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
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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, he will invade them with his troops.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. What a reminder that God's ways are not ...
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Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. Their context of persecution gives these...
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Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
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The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
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