George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Habakkuk 1:12
Die? We hope that this scourge will not entirely ruin us. --- Correction, like Pharao, Exodus ix. 16.
Die? We hope that this scourge will not entirely ruin us. --- Correction, like Pharao, Exodus ix. 16.
Verse Habakkuk 1:12. _ART THOU NOT FROWN EVERLASTING_] The idols change, and their worshippers change and fail: but thou, Jehovah, art _eternal_; thou canst not change, and they who trust in thee are...
The prophet, having summed up the deeds of the enemy of God in this his end, sets forth his questions anew. He had appealed against the evil of the wicked of his people; he had been told of the vengea...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Judgment of Judah Through the Chaldeans Announced _ 1. The prophet's cry to Jehovah (Habakkuk 1:1) _ 2. The answer (Habakkuk 1:5) 3. The prophet's plea (H
REMONSTRANCE OVER THE INHUMANITY OF THE CHALDEANS. The execution of Divine judgment raises fresh questions: Why should the Holy One, whose eyes are too pure to look on evil, appoint as minister of jus...
ART THOU NOT... ? Note the change of subject, as shown in the Structure above. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. WE SHALL NOT DIE. This is one of the eighteen emendations of the _Sopherim_ (see App-33),...
_HABAKKUK REPLIED TO GOD -- HABAKKUK 1:12-14:_ Habakkuk addressed God on behalf of the people. In this appeal to God he contrasted God's power and purity with what God was doing with the destructive w...
ART THOU NOT FROM EVERLASTING, O LORD— _For_ thou, _O Lord, my God, the holy God, the God of truth, thou hast of old ordained him to judgment: thou hast made him a strong enemy, that thou mightest cor...
CHAPTER XVII THE SECOND QUESTION Habakkuk 1:12-17 RV. Art thou not from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgement; and thou, O Roc...
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. ART THOU N...
THE PROPHET'S BURDEN. THE ANSWER OF JEHOVAH 1. Burden] RM 'oracle': see on Isaiah 13:1. 2, 3. HOW LONG?.. WHY?] Even a prophet (Habakkuk 1:1) can ask such questions. He never denies the existence of...
HABAKKUK'S faith is staggered by the conduct of the Chaldeans. He had welcomed them as ministers of the divine judgment, and 10!they had shown themselves to be cruel and haughty, working out not God's...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Habakkuk _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Assyria was a country to the north and east of Israel. For many years, it ruled most of the world. Nahum, Habakkuk...
WE SHALL NOT DIE — _i.e._, God’s people may suffer, but shall not be obliterated, shall not be “given over unto death.” The rest of the verse runs literally, _Jehovah, for judgment hast Thou appointed...
(12-17) Though sore perplexed, Habakkuk feels sure that the God whom this swaggering conqueror has insulted will at last vindicate Himself....
הֲ לֹ֧וא אַתָּ֣ה מִ קֶּ֗דֶם יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהַ֛י
Habakkuk 1:1 Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 (or 8) Yet it is the first piece which raises the most difficult questions. All admit that it is to be dated somewhere along the line of Jeremiah's long career...
THE APPARENT PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED Habakkuk 1:1-17 Habakkuk probably lived toward the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, when the Chaldeans were preparing to invade the land. Jerusalem was fille...
In this first division of the Book we have the prophet's statement of the problems which vexed his soul. The first was the apparent indifference of Jehovah both to his prayer and to the condition of p...
[Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not (k) die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. (k) He a...
This is a most blessed prayer, and if I mistake not, it takes into its bosom all the great leading points of redemption. The Prophet by this figure of speech, of seemingly as king, the Lord concerning...
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 now exulting, according to what all the faithful feel, shows the effect of what he has just mentioned; for as ungodly men wantonly rise up against God, and, while Satan renders them insane...
First of all, the prophet complains that the evil which exists among the people is insupportable. This is the natural effect of the working of the Spirit of God in a heart jealous for His glory and de...
[ART] THOU NOT FROM EVERLASTING, O LORD MY GOD, MINE HOLY ONE?.... The prophet, foreseeing these calamities coming upon his nation and people, observes some things for their comfort in this verse; and...
Habakkuk 1:12 [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correctio...
_Art thou not_, &c. Here the prophet, upon being made sensible that the king of Babylon should attribute all his victories to some false or fictitious deity, or to his own abilities, breaks out into a...
Art Thou not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, mine Holy One? To this certainty the prophet clings; from it he derives consoling confidence. WE SHALL NOT DIE, the people of the Lord would not be wholl...
The Prophet's Prayer...
MIGHTY: _ Heb._ rock ESTABLISHED: _ Heb._ founded...
12-17 However matters may be, yet God is the Lord our God, our Holy One. We are an offending people, he is an offended God, yet we will not entertain hard thoughts of him, or of his service. It is gr...
ART THOU NOT FROM EVERLASTING? in being, thou art that God who art not like the gods of the nations, upstart and novel, but before the mountains were brought forth thou wast God; thou hast permitted,...
Habakkuk 1:12 everlasting H6924 LORD H3068 God H430 One H6918 die H4191 (H8799) LORD H3068 appointed H7760 ...
HABBAKUK IS EVEN MORE PUT OUT. HOW CAN GOD USE SUCH INSTRUMENTS TO CHASTEN HIS PEOPLE? (HABAKKUK 1:12). Habakkuk 1:12 ‘Are you not from everlasting, O YHWH? My God, my Holy One, We will not die. O...
CONTENTS: Habakkuk's prayer concerning evil in dispersed Israel. God's voice to Israel and Habakkuk's testimony to God. CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk. CONCLUSION: We must not think it strange if God som...
Zechariah 1:1. _The burden,_ the prophecy, _which Habakkuk the prophet saw._ Here he opens his commission, as divinely inspired with vision, and invested with a charge which he must deliver. God laid...
_Art Thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One?_ we shall not die. THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF IMMORTALITY We know” that this prophet was inspired, from the profound moral insight and...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:12 Second Cycle. This passage asks an age-old question: Why does evil seem to go unpunished? God’s answer is that all who are wicked will eventually be punished; meanwhile,...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 1:11. Then] Elated by victory. CHANGE] Lit. the wind passes by; the storm of violence like the wind sweeps over the land. Some refer it to the Chaldee nation, who change in...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:20 PART I. JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL, IN THE FORM OF A COLLOQUY BETWEEN THE PROPHET AND GOD....
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 Samuel 2:2; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 Timothy 6:16; 2 Kings 19:25; Acts 3:14
Shall not die — Be utterly destroyed. Ordained — Set up, and designed. Them — The Chaldean kingdom. For judgment — To execute this judgment, which is tempered with mercy. For correction — To chastise,...