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Habakkuk

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Introduction to Habakkuk:
Author: Habakkuk (1:1).Time of His Ministry: About 626 B.C., close to the time of the Babylonian invasion and the first exile to Babylon (605 B.C.).Place of His Ministry: The southern kingdom of Judah.Object of His Ministry: The southern kingdom of Judah.

Subject of Habakkuk:
The Righteous Judgment of God First on Israel by the Chaldeans
and Then on the Chldeans by the Nations

Habakkuk

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Verses (17)
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I. |The introductory word — 1:1

Hab.|1:1|-|The burden which |1|Habakkuk the prophet saw.

II. |The first dialogue between the prophet and Jehovah — 1:2-11

A. |The prophet's inquiring of Jehovah — vv.|2-4
Hab.|1:2|-|How long, O Jehovah, shall I cryAnd You do |a|not hear?I cry out to You, Violence!And You do not save.Hab.|1:3|-|Why do You cause me to see iniquityAnd look upon wrong?Indeed destruction and violence are before me;And there is strife, and contention arises.Hab.|1:4|-|Therefore the law is ineffective,And justice never goes forth;For the wicked encompasses the righteous,Therefore justice goes forth perverted.
B. |Jehovah's answer to the prophet — vv.|5-11
Hab.|1:5|-|Look among the nations, and see,And be |a|amazed, utterly amazed.For I am doing a work in your daysWhich you would not believe if it were told you.Hab.|1:6|-|For I am about to raise up the |a|Chaldeans,That bitter and hasty nationThat marches through the breadth of the earthTo possess habitations that are not |1|theirs.Hab.|1:7|-|They are terrible and dreadful;Their judgment and their authority issue from themselves.Hab.|1:8|-|And their horses are swifter than leopardsAnd more agile than the wolves of evening.And their horsemen prance about;Indeed their horsemen come from |a|afar;They fly like an |b|eagle that hastens to devour.
Hab.|1:9|-|All of them come to do violence;The set of their faces is forward,And they gather captives like sand.
Hab.|1:10|-|Indeed they scoff at kings,And potentates are a derision to them;They deride every fortress,For they heap up dirt and take it.Hab.|1:11|-|Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass overAnd thus become guilty; this—their strength—is their god.

III. |The second dialogue between the prophet and Jehovah — 1:12-2:20

A. |The prophet's inquiring of Jehovah — 1:12-2:1
Hab.|1:12|-|Are You not from |a|everlasting, O Jehovah,My God, my Holy One? We will not die.O Jehovah, You have appointed |1|them for |b|judgment;And You, O Rock, have established |1|them for correction.Hab.|1:13|-|You who are of purer eyes than to behold evilAnd who cannot look upon wrong,Why do You |a|look upon them who deal treacherouslyAnd keep silent when the wicked man swallows up him who is |1|morerighteous than he?
Hab.|1:14|-|And You make man like the fish of the sea,Like the creeping things, who have no one to rule for them.Hab.|1:15|-|They take all of them up with a |a|hook;They drag them off in their netAnd gather them into their seine;So they rejoice and exult.Hab.|1:16|-|Therefore they offer |a|sacrifices to their netAnd burn incense to their seine,For by them their portion is fatAnd their food is plenteous.Hab.|1:17|-|Will they then empty their netAnd continually slay the nations without sparing?

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