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Verse Habakkuk 3:10. _THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE_] This is the continued
answer to the questions in Habakkuk 3:8. These are figures highly
poetic, to show with what ease God accomplished the most arduous...
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THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE AND THEY TREMBLED - literally, “they
tremble.” While man is insensate, inanimate nature feels and attests
the presence of its Maker. “It saw it trembles.” To see, feel,
tremble...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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_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...
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THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE EARTH, &C.— The 10th verse should certainly
begin with this clause, where the prophet begins a new subject. Green
renders it,
Thou cleavedst the dry land into rivers.
See comme...
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_HABAKKUK 3:10_. The mountains saw thee, and were in pangs: see Psalms
77:16; Psalms 114:4.
Habakkuk 3:10. The overflowing,
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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...
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The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the
water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands
on high.
THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE - even as God, with his, all-...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE. — The earthquake at Sinai and the dividing
of the Red Sea, the waters of which were lifted up “as a wall on the
right hand and on the left” of Israel, lie at the basis of this...
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(10-18) All the verbs in these verses are misrendered as regards
tense. (See note on 3-15.)...
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רָא֤וּךָ יָחִ֨ילוּ֙ הָרִ֔ים זֶ֥רֶם
מַ֖יִם עָבָ֑ר...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the
water (n) passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his
hands on high.
(n) He alludes to the Red Sea and Jordan, which...
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Grieved. They seemed full of surprise, as in labour, (Hebrew) and the
abyss spoke in its manner, (Calmet) obeying thy voice, and letting the
Israelites pass. (Haydock) (Psalm lxxiii. 15., and cxiii. 3...
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It is impossible by any comment, even if written with the pen of an
angel, to add any beauty to this most sublime passage. I retire from
it therefore, and only beg the Reader, as he reads it, to conne...
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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...
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Habakkuk proceeds with the history of the people’s redemption. We
have said what his object was, even this that the people, though in an
extreme state of calamity, might yet entertain hope of God’s fa...
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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...
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THE MOUNTAINS SAW THEE, [AND] THEY TREMBLED,.... At the power and
presence of God, as Sinai of old; Habakkuk 3:6 by which are signified
mighty people and nations, kings and great men, struck with terr...
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The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the
water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands
on high.
Ver. 10. _The mountains saw thee, and they trembled...
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_Was the Lord_, &c. After the description of Jehovah, given in the
preceding verses, the first of his wonderful works, recounted by the
prophet, is the passage through the Red sea, where he represents...
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JEHOVAH'S MAJESTIC COMING TO JUDGMENT...
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The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled, shaken by storms and
earthquakes; THE OVERFLOWING OF THE WATER PASSED BY, a torrent of
water, from subterranean sources or as the result of a cloudburst,
rus...
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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...
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THE MOUNTAINS; literally taken, it is an elegant hyperbole, expressing
to us the glorious effects of God's power and presence; and thus Sinai
and the contiguous hills, the whole mount, EXODUS 19:18, a...
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Habakkuk 3:10 mountains H2022 saw H7200 (H8804) trembled H2342 (H8799)
overflowing H2230 water H4325 by H5674 ...
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‘You divided the earth with rivers,
The mountains saw you and were afraid,
The tempest of waters passed by,
The deep uttered his voice,
And lifted up his hands on high.
The sun and moon stood sti...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Habakkuk 3:8.] Now judgment is executed. The description rests upon
two facts: dividing of Red Sea and of Jordan (Exodus 15:18; Psalms
104:3;...
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EXPOSITION
HABAKKUK 3:1
Part II. PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK.
HABAKKUK 3:1
§ 1. _The title._ A PRAYER. There is only one form
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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,...
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Exodus 14:22; Exodus 19:16; Habakkuk 3:6; Hebrews 11:29; Isaiah 11:
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Overflowing — The inundation which at that season was wont to be
very great in and round Jordan, passed away at the word of God; the
waters below flowed, and ran from those above, which stood on a hea...