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Habakkuk 3:14
נָקַ֤בְתָּ בְ מַטָּיו֙ רֹ֣אשׁ פְּרָזָ֔יו† יִסְעֲר֖וּ לַ הֲפִיצֵ֑נִי עֲלִ֣יצֻתָ֔ם כְּמֹו ־לֶ אֱכֹ֥ל עָנִ֖י בַּ † מִּסְתָּֽר׃
נָקַ֤בְתָּ בְ מַטָּיו֙ רֹ֣אשׁ פְּרָזָ֔יו† יִסְעֲר֖וּ לַ הֲפִיצֵ֑נִי עֲלִ֣יצֻתָ֔ם כְּמֹו ־לֶ אֱכֹ֥ל עָנִ֖י בַּ † מִּסְתָּֽר׃
Verse Habakkuk 3:14. _THOU DIDST STRIKE THROUGH_] The Hebrew will bear this sense: "Thou hast pierced amidst their tribes the head of their troops," referring to Pharaoh and his generals, who came li...
THOU DIDST STRIKE THROUGH WITH HIS STAVES THE HEAD OF HIS VILLAGES - The destruction comes not upon himself only, but upon the whole multitude of his subjects; and this not by any mere act of divine m...
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...
In answer to his prayer, Yahweh comes from Sinai, riding on His victorious chariots, surrounded by glory and splendour, His bow uncovered and His quiver filled with shafts, making the mountains to sin...
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;...
STRIKE THROUGH. pierce. HIS STAVES. his own weapons. Compare Judges 7:22. HEAD. chief. VILLAGES. leaders. Hebrew text. "leader"(singular); but margin "leaders" (plural), with some codices and five...
_Thou didst strike through_ THOU HAST PIERCED THROUGH WITH THY SPEARS THE HEAD OF HIS WARRIORS. The Heb. text reads _his_spears or staves, which would mean that the weapons of the enemy were turned ag...
_GOD'S POWER AND WRATH WERE DEMONSTRATED -- HABAKKUK 3:8-15:_ God was not disturbed over disobedience of the rivers or the seas. His concern was over a rebellious people. His horses and chariots were...
THOU DIDST STRIKE, &C.— Green, as we have seen in the former note, joins this clause to the 13th verse. Houbigant reads it thus, _Thou with thy sceptre didst strike through the head of his princes, wh...
CHAPTER XVIII THE PROPHET'S POETIC PRAYER VISION OF GOD IN JUDGEMENT. Habakkuk 3:1-15 RV. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth. O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afra...
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. THOU DIDST STRIKE THROUGH WITH HI...
3:14 leaders. (h-13) Others read 'the leaders of his hordes.'...
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...
(3-15) Habakkuk describes the “Theophany” or self-manifestation of Jehovah, which is to introduce the desired deliverance. The Authorised Version has unfortunately rendered all the verbs in this secti...
(10-18) All the verbs in these verses are misrendered as regards tense. (See note on 3-15.)...
THOU DOST STRIKE THROUGH WITH HIS STAVES... — Better, _Thou dost pierce with his_ (_scil.,_ thine anointed people’s) _spears the head of his_ (the enemy’s) _princes, when they sweep by to scatter me a...
III. (1-15) A hymn describing a future self-manifestation of Jehovah on Israel’s behalf, accompanied by the signs and wonders of the early history. It is impossible to give the English reader an idea...
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...
Thou didst (s) strike through with his staffs the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly. (s) God destroyed his enemies...
_Sceptres. The nobles were drowned (Haydock) with their king, (Calmet) when they expected an easy prey, Exodus xiii. 9. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "thou hast pierced the chief of their troops in the midst...
These verses form a part in the sublime description of what went before the preceding verse, on which I do not think it needful, after what hath been said, to detain the Reader....
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...
At the beginning of this verse the Prophet pursues the same subject—that God had wounded all the enemies of his people; and he says that the head of villages or towns had been wounded, though some thi...
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...
THOU DIDST STRIKE THROUGH WITH HIS STAVES THE HEAD OF HIS VILLAGES,.... Of his warriors, mighty men, princes; so the Vulgate Latin, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; or of his armies, as Jarchi...
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. Ver. 14. _Thou didst strike throu...
_Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people_ For their deliverance and protection; _even for salvation with thine anointed_ With those appointed and qualified to be leaders and rulers of thy p...
Thou didst strike through with his staves, piercing with the spear or weapons of the wicked one, THE HEAD OF HIS VILLAGES, the ruler of his hordes, or the chief of his princes, so that the soldiers of...
JEHOVAH'S MAJESTIC COMING TO JUDGMENT...
CAME OUT AS A WHIRLWIND: _ Heb._ were tempestuous...
3-15 God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between t...
THOU, O God, DIDST STRIKE THROUGH WITH HIS STAVES; either meant of the staves or arms of the Canaanitish kings which they lifted up against Israel, thereby provoking Israel to fight, in which being ov...
Habakkuk 3:14 through H5344 (H8804) arrows H4294 head H7218 villages H6518 whirlwind H5590 (H8799) scatter H6327 ...
‘You wounded the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation, even to the neck. Selah (consider that!) You pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors, They came as a whi...
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...
_God came from Teman._ GOD POETICALLY PORTRAYED AND PRACTICALLY REMEMBERED The Bible contains many grand songs and odes. But this song of Habakkuk stands in peerless splendour amongst them all. I. P...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 3:12.] Acts of judgment connected with the salvation of Israel. MARCH] Solemn and majestic proceeding (Judges 5:4; Psalms 68:8). THRESH] Tread down the enemy ...
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,...
Acts 4:27; Acts 4:28; Daniel 11:40; Exodus 1:10; Exodus 1:22;...
Villages — All the cities and all the unwalled towns. They — The inhabitants of Canaan. As a whirlwind — With violence invading me on every side. To scatter — To disperse and drive away the Israelites...