How long? — i.e., how long shall this continual annexation be witnessed?
That ladeth himself with thick clay. — Better, That accumulates to himself usury. So the Targum. The rendering “thick clay” originates in a false etymology of the word abtêt, which the student will find in Rashi’s Commentary. For the true derivation see Fürst’s Lexicon.
Verse 6. _SHALL NOT ALL THESE TAKE UP A PARABLE AGAINST HIM_] His ambition, derangement, and the final destruction of his mighty empire by the Persians, shall form the foundation of many _sententious...
SHALL NOT ALL THESE TAKE UP A PARABLE AGAINST HIM, AND A TAUNTING PROVERB AGAINST HIM? - Nebuchadnezzar gathered, Daniel 3:4, “all people, nations, and languages, to worship the golden image which he...
CHAPTER 2 The Ungodliness of the Chaldeans and Their Destruction _ 1. The waiting prophet and the message he received (Habakkuk 2:1) _ 2. The five-fold woe upon the Chaldeans (Habakkuk 2:5) Habakku...
WOES ON THE EVIL-DOER. Habakkuk 2:5 f. Woe on the insatiable conqueror, who treacherously gathers to himself the heritage of all the nations, only to be the victim of their bitterest maledictions. Ha...
PARABLE. Hebrew. _mashal._ PROVERB. enigma. Hebrew. _hidah,_ as in Psalms 78:2. WOE. Note the five woes in verses: Habakkuk 2:6; Habakkuk 2:9;...
_WOE TO THOSE THAT ARE GREEDY AND COVETOUS -- HABAKKUK 2:1-11:_ After Habakkuk spoke his second message he said he would stand guard on the watchtower and wait for the Lord's answer. He would stand bo...
YEA, ALSO, &C.— _A transgressor by wine,_ is quite foreign to the subject; nor do the Syriac, LXX, or Arabic mention any thing of it. Houbigant renders the verse, very agreeably to the context, thus,...
JEHOVAH'S ANSWER. Habakkuk 2:1-20 RV. I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint. And...
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick c...
2:6 pledges! (e-39) There is a play on the word, which may also mean 'thick clay.' So in ver. 7 'bite' may mean 'exact usury of.' cf. Jeremiah 8:17 ; Ezekiel 22:12 ....
FAITH TRIUMPHANT 1-4. The view from the watchtower. 1. The prophet climbs his tower, for he must reach a vantage point, if he is to contemplate with real understanding and insight the confusion about...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Habakkuk _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 2 V1 I will stand and I will watch. I will stay on the walls (of the city). I will look to see what (God) will say to me. And I will see...
הֲ לֹוא ־אֵ֣לֶּה כֻלָּ֗ם עָלָיו֙ מָשָׁ֣ל יִשׂ
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...
Habakkuk 2:1 Habakkuk 2:5 The dramatic piece Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 is succeeded by a series of fine taunt-songs, starting after an in
“THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH” Habakkuk 2:1-20 Having prayed, the prophet expected an answer and looked out for it. When it came, there would be no mistaking it. But until we see eye to eye, we must...
The proclamations fall into two parts. The first is concerned with the "puffed up," the second concerns the righteous. The "puffed up" are described as haughty, ambitious, conquering, against whom th...
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! (f) how long? and to him that ladeth himself with th...
Parable. Literally, "marvel," or wonderful speech; parabolam. --- Dark. Protestants, "a taunting proverb;" (Haydock) when Nabuchodonosor became like a beast, and his empire was soon after divided. (Ca...
What vision is this? The whole prophecy of Isaiah is called a vision. Isaiah 1:1. And that we know to have been concerning the Lord Jesus and his gospel. And is not this the same? Was not Jesus sent f...
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...
Now at length the Prophet denounces punishment on the Babylonian king and the Chaldeans; for the Lord would render them a sport to all. But some think that a punishment is also expressed in the preced...
There the prophet stops, that God in His time may explain this; watches, like a sentinel, to receive the answer of God to the anxiety of his soul. God, in order to comfort His prophet and all His fait...
SHALL NOT ALL THESE TAKE UP A PARABLE AGAINST HIM,.... A proverbial expression, a short sentence, a laconic speech, delivered in a few words, which contains much in them concerning the vices of these...
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick...
_Shall not these take up a parable against_ (or, _concerning_) _him, and a taunting proverb_ A _parable_, or _proverb_, signifies a metaphorical or figurative saying, out of the common way. _And say,...
shall not all these take up a parable against him, a proverbial saying, AND A TAUNTING PROVERB, a satirical speech or sententious poem, AGAINST HIM AND SAY, WOE TO HIM THAT INCREASETH THAT WHICH IS NO...
THE INTRODUCTION AND THE FIRST WOE...
WOE TO HIM: Or, Ho, he...
5-14 The prophet reads the doom of all proud and oppressive powers that bear hard upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, are the entangling snares of m...
SHALL NOT? the prediction is moulded thus in a question, to give it emphasis, and make it more affective. ALL THESE, who have been oppressed, contumeliously used, and perfidiously deceived; all the pe...
Habakkuk 2:6 up H5375 (H8799) proverb H4912 taunting H4426 riddle H2420 say H559 (H8799) Woe H1945 increases...
THE FIRST WOE (HABAKKUK 2:6). Habakkuk 2:6 ‘Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, saying, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his. How long? And...
THE FIVE WOES OF GOD (HABAKKUK 2:6). God now outlines to Habakkuk how He is going to finally punish Babylon for what it is, and the wonderful blessing to the whole world which will come from His acti...
Habakkuk 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved._ «I shall look to God, and I shall al...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Habakkuk's testimony. Vision of coming woes. CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk. CONCLUSION: The lusts of the flash, the lusts of the eye and the pride of life are the entangl...
Zechariah 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch._ The ancient nations often had no great confidence in what is now called, The faith of treaties. The Israelites kept a watchman on the tower of Jezreel; oth...
_Him that ladeth himself with thick clay._ HEAVY CLAY It is the glory of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ when it is regarded in its moral aspect, that it is not the religion merely of transcen...
HABAKKUK 2:2 God’s Response. The Lord assures Habakkuk that he will punish all the wicked, at the right time. ⇐ ⇔...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:6 This taunt against the Babylonians consists of five “woe oracles” (vv. Habakkuk 2:6, Habakku
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 2:6. These] “nations” and “people” (Habakkuk 2:4). PARABLE] A derisive song (Isaiah 14:4; Micah 2:4), some; ode, given by
EXPOSITION HABAKKUK 2:1 § 5. _The prophet, waiting for an answer to his expostulation, is bidden to write the oracle in plain characters, because its fulfilment is certain._ HABAKKUK 2:1 Habakkuk s...
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 Corinthians 7:29; 1 Peter 4:7; Ezekiel 32:21; Habakkuk 1:10;...