‘YHWH the Lord is my strength,
And he makes my feet like hind's feet,
And will make me to walk on my high places.'
From now on no disaster will be able to touch him. For YHWH, the Lord of creation and deliverance as revealed in the poem, is his strength. And He gives him feet that can clamber without slipping, and makes him walk in the high places, within his soul far from strife and trouble. He lives in the heavenly places with his God.
Verse Habakkuk 3:19. _THE LORD GOD_ IS _MY STRENGTH_] This is an imitation, if not a quotation, from Psalms 18:32-19, where see the notes. _WILL MAKE ME TO WALK UPON MINE HIGH PLACES_] This last ver...
THE LORD GOD IS MY STRENGTH - The prophet does not inwardly only exult and triumph in God, but he confesses also in words of praise, that in Him he hath all things, that He is All things in him. And a...
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...
A liturgical addition, expressing perfect trust in Yahweh even amid loss and grief (cf. Joel 1:17). HABAKKUK 3:17. For _tiphrah_, blossom, read probably _tiphreh_, bear fruit (LXX). Habakkuk 3:19. F...
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;...
GOD. Hebrew Adonai. App-4. STRENGTH. might, or force. Compare Psalms 18:32. WILL MAKE, &C. Compare 2 Samuel 1:23. 2Sa 23:24. 1 Chronicles 12:8;...
_The Lord God is my strength_ lit. _Jehovah, the Lord is_, &c. Psalms 73:26, "God is the strength of my heart"; Psalms 18:32, "The God that girdeth me with strength." The strength is an inward one, co...
It is not easy to say whether Habakkuk 3:17 contains a series of suppositions referring to what may happen in the future, or describes a condition of things actually existing. The latter way of readin...
_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...
AND HE WILL MAKE ME TO WALK, &C.— _And cause me to tread again on my own high places._ By _high places,_ the prophet seems to mean the fruitful hills of Judaea; at least Moses uses the word in this se...
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...
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 THE LORD GOD ... WILL MAKE MY FEET LIKE HINDS' F...
3:19 Lord, (c-3) _ Jehovah Adonai_ . see Ezekiel 2:4 ....
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...
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...
THE LORD GOD. — This is an adaptation from Psalms 18:33. The “hinds’ feet” indicate the strength and elasticity of the prophet’s confidence; the “high places” are, as Kleinert observes, “the heights o...
(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....
יְהוִ֤ה אֲדֹנָי֙ חֵילִ֔י וַ יָּ֤שֶׂם רַגְלַי֙...
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...
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...
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...
The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon my high places. (z) To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. (z) The chief singer u...
Places. I shall escape the fury of the Chaldeans, and sing a hymn of thanksgiving. (Calmet) --- "The conqueror singing psalms" may be unconnected with the rest, (Haydock) and designed to shew that the...
REFLECTIONS HAIL! thou Almighty Lord Jesus! do I not behold thee in this precious scripture, set forth as the great Saviour and Redeemer of thy Church and people? Truly, Lord, thy goings forth have be...
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...
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...
He confirms the same truth,—that he sought no strength but in God alone. But there is an implied contrast between God and those supports on which men usually lean. There is indeed no one, who is not o...
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...
THE LORD GOD [IS] MY STRENGTH,.... The author and giver of natural and spiritual strength, as he is to all his people; he is the strength of their hearts when ready to faint and sink, and of their gra...
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. Ver. 19. _The Lord God i...
_The Lord God is my strength_ He that is the God of our salvation in another world, will be our strength in this world, to carry us on in our journey thither, and help us over the difficulties and opp...
The Lord God is my Strength, Psalms 27:1, AND HE WILL MAKE MY FEET LIKE HINDS' FEET, strong and sure-footed, AND HE WILL MAKE ME TO WALK UPON MINE HIGH PLACES, on the heights of salvation to which one...
A PLEA FOR MERCY...
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS: _ Heb._ Neginoth...
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...
The prophet had in his own, and in the name of all the godly, made a full profession of his faith, and resolution to behave himself with joy in midst of troubles, HABAKKUK 3:17,18; now he gives us acc...
Habakkuk 3:19 LORD H3069 God H136 strength H2428 make H7760 (H8799) feet H7272 deers H355 walk H1869 ...
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...
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...
_The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds’ feet._ STRENGTH, BUOYANCY, DEVOTION The expressions are of a highly metaphorical and imaginative character, but they admit of being...
HAPPY FEET He maketh my feet like hinds' feet. Habakkuk 3:19. Some of you girls are not a little proud of your feet. When you get a new pair of shoes you stick your feet well out in front of you and...
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...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 3:17 Anticipating great destruction by the Babylonians, Habakkuk has radically changed. He began by informing God how to run his world; he ends by trusting that God knows bes...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 3:19 HE MAKES MY FEET LIKE THE DEER’S. Habakkuk can have confidence in God. He can live on the heights even during extreme circumstances (see Malachi 4:2
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...
EXPOSITION HABAKKUK 3:1 Part II. PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK. HABAKKUK 3:1 § 1. _The title._ A PRAYER. There is only one form
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,...
2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2 Samuel 22:34; Colossians 1:11;...
Like hinds feet — That I may escape to God my refuge. He will make me — To conquer and triumph....