“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.”
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls—the conditional clause envisions complete agricultural collapse: no figs, grapes, olives, grain, or livestock. This scenario represents the worst possible economic devastation; Habakkuk contemplates total loss of livelihood. Yet the resolution that follows establishes faith's deepest test: trusting God when all external supports vanish.
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