Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Habakkuk 1:6
Bitter — Cruel, and without mercy. Hasty — Speedy in executing their merciless purposes.
Bitter — Cruel, and without mercy. Hasty — Speedy in executing their merciless purposes.
Verse 6. _THAT BITTER AND HASTY NATION_] Cruel and oppressive in their disposition; and prompt and speedy in their assaults and conquests....
FOR LO - So God announces a future, in which His Hand shall be greatly visible, whether more or less distant. In His sight it is present. I RAISE UP - God uses the free will and evil passions of peopl...
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
THE CHALDEANS AS MINISTERS OF DIVINE JUSTICE. In His answer Yahweh directly addresses the evil-doers, warning them that He is about to work a work in their days they would never have believed: He is r...
I RAISE UP, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49; Deuteronomy 28:5). App-92. THEIRS. Hebrew his; and so throughout this chapter....
_GOD ANSWERED HABAKKUK'S COMPLAINT -- HABAKKUK 1:5-11:_ God assured Habakkuk that He was busy doing something about the situation that was so much bothering him. He told the prophet that he would be a...
THAT BITTER AND HASTY NATION— _That swift nation, which shall hasten its pace, and shall march,_ &c. Houbigant....
JEHOVAH'S ANSWER. Habakkuk 1:5-11 RV. Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you. For, lo, I...
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. FOR, LO, I RAISE UP - not refe...
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...
THE CHALDEANS] possibly written after the battle of Carchemish, in 605 b.c., with reference to Nebuchadrezzar and his army, so graphically described in Habakkuk 2:6. 7. The last clause means that the...
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...
(5-11) Jehovah’s answer to Habakkuk’s complaint. These disorders are to be punished by an invasion of Chaldæaus. The appearance, character, and operations of these invaders are described....
I RAISE UP THE CHALDEANS — _i.e._, I am bringing up the Chaldæan or Babylonian armies into Judæa. The phrase implies that the Chaldæans were not yet in Judæa, but there is no occasion to find an allus...
כִּֽי ־הִנְנִ֤י מֵקִים֙ אֶת ־הַ כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים...
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...
Chaldeans. Nabuchodonosor was the first of this nation who attacked Joakim, and having conquered all as far as the Nile, returned to succeed Nabopolassar. He afterwards came upon Jechonias and Sedecia...
After the observation I ventured to make on the preceding verse, it will be expected from me, that I should say in what sense I consider what is here said of the Chaldeans coming up upon the land. To...
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...
This verse is added by the Prophet as an explanation; for it was not enough to speak generally of God’s work, without reminding them that their destruction by the Chaldeans was nigh at hand. He does n...
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...
FOR, LO, I RAISE UP THE CHALDEANS,.... A people still of late mean and low, famous only for their soothsaying, divination, and judicial astrology; but now become a powerful and warlike people, rising...
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs. Ver. 6. _For lo, I raise up...
_For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans_ This is spoken of as a matter of great wonder and astonishment, because the Chaldeans, in the times of Hezekiah, Manasseh, and Josiah, were allies of the Jewish nati...
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, a fierce and impetuous nation, WHICH SHALL MARCH THROUGH THE BREADTH OF THE LAND, whose campaigns would extend throughout the earth, TO...
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
BREADTH: _ Heb._ breadths...
1-11 The servants of the Lord are deeply afflicted by seeing ungodliness and violence prevail; especially among those who profess the truth. No man scrupled doing wrong to his neighbour. We should lo...
FOR LO: now the prophet declares particularly what it is that the Lord will work. I RAISE UP; awaken to action, animate them in it, and strengthen them to accomplish their design. THE CHALDEANS, who h...
Habakkuk 1:6 up H6965 (H8688) Chaldeans H3778 bitter H4751 hasty H4116 (H8737) nation H1471 marches H1980 ...
GOD'S REPLY. HE IS BRINGING THE BABYLONIANS AS HIS CHASTENERS (HABAKKUK 1:5). Habakkuk 1:5 ‘Behold among the nations and regard, and wonder marvellously (‘wonder with wonder'). For I work a work in y...
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...
_I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you._ THE DOOM OF A NATION OF CONVENTIONAL RELIGIONISTS The Jews were such a nation. They prided themselves in the orth...
THE RIGHT KIND OF BANK He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Haggai 1:6. A farmer's wife once preached a sermon to a little girl. This is how it was. Katie that was th...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:2 First Cycle. Habakkuk is disappointed that God does not seem to be answering his prayers. God’s response shows that, although Habakkuk doesn’t realize it, his prayers are...
HABAKKUK 1:5 God’s Response. God has already begun to answer Habakkuk’s request: the Babylonians are coming to punish the Israelites. ⇐...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:6 I AM RAISING UP. God uses nations for his own purposes (compare Isaiah 44:28;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 1:5]. God’s answer to the complaint. BEHOLD] prophet and people. God is about to act, and they will be terrified at its results (cf. Acts 13:41). HABAKKUK 1:6. RAISE] To ma...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Chronicles 36:6; 2 Kings 24:2; Deuteronomy 28:49;...