Habakkuk 1:6-11

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 which I readily answer, that no doubt the Lord by the Prophet was here predicting the sad events which were to come upon the Church by the Babylonish captivity. But, when we consider yet further, that those events, calamitous as they were in themselves, were all ministering to the one great object, to which the whole of the law, and the Prophets ministered, even to the person, work, and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ; it is blessed to perceive how God the Holy Ghost, by the ministry of his Servants, is holding forth comforts to the Church, while correcting the people for their sins. See Zephaniah 3:20.