Habakkuk 3
Lutheran reading notes
In Habakkuk chapter 3, the prophetic message develops the theme of faith amid injustice and trust in God. Lutheran interpretation often highlights the contrast between divine judgment against sin and the promise of grace that God provides for those who trust in Him.
1
A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. {upon...: or, according to variable songs, or, tunes, called in Hebrew, Shigionoth}
Habakkuk 3:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
O LORD, I have heard thy speech, {and} was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. {speech: Heb. report, or, hearing} {revive: or, preserve alive}
Habakkuk 3:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
3
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. {Teman: or, the south}
Habakkuk 3:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
4
And {his} brightness was as the light; he had horns {coming} out of his hand: and there {was} the hiding of his power. {horns...: or, bright beams out of his side}
Habakkuk 3:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
5
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. {coals: or, diseases}
Habakkuk 3:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways {are} everlasting.
Habakkuk 3:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: {and} the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. {Cushan: or, Ethiopia} {in...: or, under affliction, or, vanity}
Habakkuk 3:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
8
Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? {was} thine anger against the rivers? {was} thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses {and} thy chariots of salvation? {of...: or, were salvation?}
Habakkuk 3:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy bow was made quite naked, {according} to the oaths of the tribes, {even thy} word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. {earth...: or, rivers of the earth}
Habakkuk 3:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
10
The mountains saw thee, {and} they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, {and} lifted up his hands on high.
Habakkuk 3:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
11
The sun {and} moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, {and} at the shining of thy glittering spear. {at the light...: or, thine arrows walked in the light}
Habakkuk 3:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
12
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Habakkuk 3:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, {even} for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. {by...: Heb. making naked}
Habakkuk 3:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
14
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing {was} as to devour the poor secretly. {came...: Heb. were tempestuous}
Habakkuk 3:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
15
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, {through} the heap of great waters. {heap: or, mud}
Habakkuk 3:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. {invade...: or, cut them in pieces}
Habakkuk 3:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
17
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither {shall} fruit {be} in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and {there shall be} no herd in the stalls: {fail: Heb. lie}
Habakkuk 3:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
18
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
19
The LORD God {is} my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' {feet}, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. {chief...: or, overseer} {stringed...: Heb. Neginoth}
Habakkuk 3:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.