Habakuk 2:13

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

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is it: Genesis 11:6-9, 2 Samuel 15:31, Job 5:13, Job 5:14, Psalms 39:6, Psalms 127:1, Psalms 127:2, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 41:5-8, Isaiah 50:11, Isaiah 55:2, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:64, Malachi 1:4

for very vanity: or, in vain

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:20 - your strength Job 28:3 - searcheth Job 39:16 - her labour Proverbs 16:27 - diggeth Ecclesiastes 1:3 - profit Ecclesiastes 2:11 - behold Ecclesiastes 5:11 - what Isaiah 44:12 - he is Isaiah 47:13 - wearied Isaiah 57:10 - wearied Jeremiah 9:5 - weary Jeremiah 12:13 - put Ezekiel 24:12 - wearied Habakkuk 2:6 - ladeth John 6:27 - the meat 1 Thessalonians 2:1 - in vain James 1:13 - no man

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, [is it] not of the Lord of hosts?.... That which follows; the judgments of God upon the bloody city, which they that labour to prevent labour in vain. So the Targum,

"lo, strong and mighty blows or judgments come from the Lord of hosts;''

the mighty God, the Lord of armies, whose hand when stretched out none can turn back; he does what he pleases, and none can hinder him; when the decree is gone forth from him, it is in vain to attempt to stop it:

that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? words of the same import, and expressed in much the same language, were used of the destruction of literal Babylon by fire, and of the vain attempts of the Chaldeans in labouring and wearying themselves to quench it, Jeremiah 51:58 and here of mystical Babylon, and the vanity of the people of it, in labouring to support it by their wars, for recovering the holy land from the Turks, and against the Waldenses, Hussites, and Bohemians; for, notwithstanding all their successes, and the vast number of persons slain by them, yet they could never prevail so as to root out the kingdom and interest of Christ: and their city and state shall fall, and they will not be able to uphold it; and a considerable blow and shock it received at the time of the Reformation; and this great city Babylon will be destroyed by fire, which its best friends cannot prevent; even the ten kings that have given their kingdom to the beast will hate the whore, and burn her with fire; and those antichristian kings that will continue friends to her, when they see her burning, will find it in vain to attempt to help her, and will stand afar off lamenting her case, Revelation 17:16. Kimchi begins here to see that this section and paragraph does not belong to Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans, but to the times of the Messiah; and interprets it of the vengeance of God that shall come upon all the nations that come along with Gog against Jerusalem in the latter day; but he is mistaken: it designs what will come on mystical Babylon; so Abarbinel owns, that, from Habakkuk 2:12, what is said belongs to the Roman empire, which he calls the kingdom of Edom.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that (the) people (nations) shall labor - ^o

In (for) the very fire - literally, to suffice the fire? By God’s appointment, the end of all their labor is for the fire, what may suffice it to consume. This is the whole result of their labor; and so it is as if they had toiled for this; they built ceiled palaces and gorgeous buildings, only for the fire to consume them.

And the peoples shall weary themselves for very vanity - They wearied themselves, and what was their reward? What had they to suffice and fill them? “Emptiness.” This is “from the Lord of hosts,” whom all the armies of heaven obey and all creatures stand at His command against the ungodly, and in whose Hand are all the hosts of earth, and so the oppressor’s also, to turn as He wills.

Near upon the first stage of the fulfillment, Jeremiah reinforces the words with the name of Babylon; Jeremiah 51:58 : “Thus saith the Lord of hosts! The broad walls of Babylon, shall be utterly destroyed, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain (for vanity), and the folk in (for) the fire, and they shall be weary.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 2:13. The people shall labour in the very fire — All these superb buildings shall be burnt down. See the parallel passage, Jeremiah 51:58, and the note there.

Shall weary themselves for very vanity? — For the gratification of the wishes of ambition, and in buildings which shall be brought to naught.