What does Habakkuk 3:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"God came from Teman,b and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise."
Verse Habakkuk 3:3. _GOD CAME FROM TEMAN_] Bp. _Lowth_ observes: "This is a sudden burst of poetry, in the true spirit of the ode; the concealed connection being that God, who had formerly displayed s...
GOD CAME - literally, shall come FROM TEMAN - “God shall come,” as He came of old, clothed with majesty and power; but it was not mere power. The center of the whole picture is, as Micah and Isaiah ha...
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...
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; Psalms 6:...
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4. Occurs in the prophets only here, and Isaiah, and Daniel. CAME FROM TEMAN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 33:2). App-92. TEMAN... PARAN. Embraces the whole district s...
_GOD HELPS YOU THROUGH DIFFICULTIES -- HABAKKUK 3:3-7:_ Habakkuk sees the difficulty that the nation will face but more than that he sees God, who He is and His great power. Habakkuk knew that God wou...
GOD CAME FROM TEMAN— The prophet, having offered up his petition for shortening the captivity, proceeds in the next place, from Habakkuk 3:3 to recount the wonderful works which Jehovah had formerly w...
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...
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. GOD - singular in the Hebrew [ 'Elowah (H433)], 'Eloah,' instead...
3:3 full (d-22) Or 'was full.'...
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...
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...
אֱלֹ֨והַ֙ מִ תֵּימָ֣ן יָבֹ֔וא וְ קָדֹ֥ושׁ מֵֽ הַר ־פָּארָ֖ן סֶ֑לָה כִּסָּ֤ה שָׁמַ֨יִם֙ הֹודֹ֔ו וּ...
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 pas...
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...
God came from (d) Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. (d) Teman and Paran were near Sinai, where the Law was given: b...
_South. God himself will come to give us his law, and to conduct us into the true land of promise: as heretofore he came from the south, (in the Hebrew Teman) and from Mount Pharan, to give his law to...
Teman was a city in the land of Edom: Jeremiah 49:7 and Mount Paran near to Mount Sinai, for when the Israelites left Sinai, we are told that they came into the desert of Paran. Numbers 10:12. Indeed,...
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 interpreters explain in two ways. Some construe the verb in the future tense in the past time—“God went forth from Teman, and the holy one from mount Paran”; for a verb in the past tense fo...
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...
GOD CAME FROM TEMAN,.... Or, "may God come from Teman" t; since it is part of the prayer of Habakkuk: or, as "from Teman" u; as he of old came from thence, a city in the land of Edom, Jeremiah 49:7 it...
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. Ver. 3. _God came from Teman_] The prophet alludeth to that of Mose...
_God came from Teman_, &c. Bishop Lowth observes, that “this chapter affords us a remarkable instance of that sublimity which is peculiar to the _ode_, and which is principally owing to a bold and yet...
JEHOVAH'S MAJESTIC COMING TO JUDGMENT...
TEMAN: Or, the South...
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...
GOD, the God of our fathers, our God, came; appeared, discovered himself, for that is his coming, who, since he fills all places at all times, cannot be said to come by any change of place. TEMAN; eit...
Habakkuk 3:3 God H433 came H935 (H8799) Teman H8487 One H6918 Mount H2022 Paran H6290 Selah H5542 glory H1935 covered H3680 (H8765) heavens H8064 earth H776 full H4390 (H8804) praise H8416 came - Jud...
‘God came from Teman, And the Holy One from Mount Paran, (selah - consider that!), His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. His brightness was as the light, Rays proce...
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 pensi...
_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....
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 3:3.] These descriptions rest upon earlier revelations of God. TEMAN, Edom; PARAN] (Deuteronomy 33:2). God appeared from Sinai in splendour, which like the morning covered...
EXPOSITION HABAKKUK 3:1 Part II. PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK. HABAKKUK 3:1 § 1. _The title._ A PRAYER. There is only one formal prayer in the ode, that in Habakkuk 3:2; but the term is used of any...
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,...
1 Samuel 25:1; 2 Corinthians 3:7; Amos 1:12; Deuteronomy 33:2; Deuteronomy 5:24; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 20:18; Exodus 24:15; Genesis 21:21;...
God — The God of our fathers, discovered himself from Teman, a mountain not far from mount Sinai, where the law was given. Paran — Near Sinai. His glory — This the prophet mentions as a support of his...
If God is everywhere, then how could He “come from Teman”? PROBLEM: This verse seems to contradict God’s omnipresence. If God is everywhere (Psalms 139:7-10; Jeremiah 23:23), then how could He be loc...