Habakkuk Complains to the
Lord
'This is a prophecy that
Habakkuk the prophet received from the Lord . Here is what Habakkuk said. Lord
, how long do I have to call out for help? Why don’t you listen to me? How long
must I keep telling you that things are terrible? Why don’t you save us?
'Habakkuk 1:1-2
Habakkuk
1:1. The burden — The grievous calamities, or
heavy judgments; which Habakkuk did see — That is, foresee, and was
commissioned to foretell. This burden, or prophetic vision, communicated to
Habakkuk, was against the Chaldeans as well as the Jews. For while the prophet
was complaining of iniquity among the Jews,
1) God
foreshows him the desolations which the Chaldeans would make in Judea and the
neighboring countries, as the ministers of divine vengeance: and
2) Upon
the prophet’s falling into an expostulation with God about these proceedings,
moved thereto probably by his compassion for his own people, God shows him the
judgments which he would execute upon the Chaldeans.
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