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Habakkuk 3:9-19

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9 You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows.[a] Selah 1You split the earth with rivers.
10 2The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; 3the deep gave forth its voice; 4it lifted its hands on high.
11 5The sun and moon stood still in their place 6at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
12 7You marched through the earth in fury; 8you threshed the nations in anger.
13 9You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of 10your anointed. 11You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck.[b] Selah
14 You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
15 12You trampled the sea with your horses, the surging of mighty waters.
16 13I hear, and 14my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; 15rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet 16I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.

Habakkuk Rejoices in the Lord

17 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 17yet I will rejoice in the LORD; 18I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
19 GOD, the Lord, is my strength; 19he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me 20tread on my 21high places.22To the choirmaster: with 23stringed[c] instruments.
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He will put joy in your heart, and energy in your feet! - Habakkuk 3:19
Habakkuk 3:17-18

Habakkuk 3:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HABAKKUK 3

The title of this chapter is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, composed after the manner of a psalm of David, and directed to the chief singer, Hab 3:1,19. The occasion of it is expressed, Hab 3:2 in which the prophet declares his concern for the work of the Lord, and the promotion of the kingdom and interest of Christ; and observes the various steps that were, or would be, taken for the advancement of it; for which he prays, and suggests that these would be after the manner of the Lord's dealing with the people of Israel, and settling them in the land of Canaan, Hab 3:3-15 and there being several things awful in this account, both with respect to the judgments of God on his enemies, and the conflicts and trials of his own people, it greatly affected the mind of the prophet, Hab 3:16 and yet, in the view of the worst, he expresses his strong faith in the Lord, as to better times and things, that would most assuredly come, Hab 3:17-19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

  • 1. Psalms 78:15, 16
  • 2. Exodus 19:18; See Judges 5:5
  • 3. Psalms 93:3
  • 4. [Exodus 14:22; Exodus 15:8]
  • 5. See Joshua 10:12, 13
  • 6. [ver. 5]; See 2 Samuel 22:15
  • 7. [Joshua 10:42]
  • 8. [Micah 4:12, 13]
  • 9. [See ver. 12 above]
  • 10. 1 Chronicles 16:22; Psalms 105:15
  • 11. Psalms 68:21; Psalms 110:6
  • 12. [Psalms 77:19]
  • 13. ver. 2
  • 14. Jeremiah 4:19
  • 15. [Proverbs 12:4]
  • 16. [Psalms 94:13; Isaiah 14:3, 4]
  • 17. [Job 13:15]
  • 18. Psalms 9:14; Psalms 13:5; Psalms 21:1; Psalms 35:9; Luke 1:47; See Joel 2:23
  • 19. See 2 Samuel 2:18
  • 20. Amos 4:13; Micah 1:3
  • 21. Deuteronomy 32:13; Deuteronomy 33:29
  • 22. See Psalms 4
  • 23. Isaiah 38:20

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
  • [c]. Hebrew my stringed
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