Habacuc 1:5

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Vede entre as naes, e olhai, e maravilhai-vos, e admirai-vos; porque realizo, em vossos dias, uma obra, que vs no crereis, quando vos for contada.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Vede entre os gentios e olhai, e maravilhai-vos, e admirai-vos; porque realizarei em vossos dias uma obra que vs no crereis, quando for contada.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Vede entre as naes, olhai, maravilhai-vos e desvanecei, porque realizo, em vossos dias, obra tal, que vs no crereis, quando vos for contada.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye among: Deuteronomy 4:27, Jeremiah 9:25, Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 25:14-29

and regard: Isaiah 29:14, Lamentations 4:12, Daniel 9:12, Acts 13:40, Acts 13:41

for: Isaiah 28:21, Isaiah 28:22, Jeremiah 5:12, Jeremiah 5:13, Jeremiah 18:18, Ezekiel 12:22-28, Zephaniah 1:2, Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:23 - neither 1 Samuel 3:11 - I will do 2 Chronicles 36:6 - came up Isaiah 29:9 - and wonder Jeremiah 5:15 - a mighty Jeremiah 15:12 - Shall iron Ezekiel 12:25 - in your Habakkuk 3:2 - I have Habakkuk 3:16 - I heard Matthew 21:42 - and it is Mark 12:11 - General Acts 8:13 - and wondered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard,.... This is the Lord's answer to the prophet's complaint, or what he directs him to say to the Jews, guilty of the crimes complained of, which should not go long unpunished; and who are called upon to look around them, and see what was doing among the nations; how the king of Babylon had overturned the Assyrian empire, and was going from place to place, subduing one nation after another, and their turn would be quickly: for these words are not addressed to the heathen, to stir them up to observe what was doing, or about to be done, to the Jews; but to the Jews themselves, to consider and regard the operations of the Lord, and the works of his providence among the nations of the earth. These words are differently rendered in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and which better agree with the quotation of them by the apostle, :-:

and wonder marvellously; or "wonder, wonder" s; the word is repeated, to express the great admiration there would be found just reason for, on consideration of what was now doing in the world, and would be done, especially in Judea:

for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you]; which was the destruction of the Jewish nation, city, and temple, by the Chaldeans, as is evident from the following words; and, though they were the instruments of it, it was the work of divine Providence; it was done according to the will of God, and by his direction, he giving success; and, being thus declared, was a certain thing, and might be depended on, nothing should hinder it; and it should be done speedily, in that generation, some then living should see it; though the thing was so amazing and incredible, that they would not believe it ever would be; partly because the Chaldeans were their good friends and allies, as they thought, as appears by Josiah's going out against the king of Egypt, when he was marching his army against the king of Babylon; and partly because they were the covenant people of God, and would never be abandoned and given up by him into the hands of another people; and therefore, when they were told of it by the prophets of the Lord, especially by Jeremiah, time after time; who expressly said the king of Babylon would come against them, and they would be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans; yet they would give no credit to it, till their ruin came upon them, as may be observed in various parts of his prophecy. The apostle quotes this passage in the place above mentioned, and applies it to the destruction of the Jews by the Romans, for their contemptuous rejection of the Messiah and his Gospel; which yet they would not believe to the last, though it was foretold by Christ and his apostles.

s והתמהו תמהו "et admiramini, admiramini", Vatablus, Drusius, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold ye among the heathen - The whole tone of the words suddenly changes. The Jews flattered themselves that, being the people of God, He would not fulfill His threats upon them. They had become like the pagan in wickedness; God bids them look out among them for the instrument of His displeasure. It was an aggravation of their punishment, that God, who had once chosen them, would now choose these whom He had not chosen, to chasten them. So Moses had foretold; Deuteronomy 32:21, “They have moved Me to jealousy by that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with not-a-people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.” There were no tokens of the storm which should sweep them away, yet on the horizon. No forerunners yet. And so He bids them gaze on among the nations, to see whence it should come. They might have expected it from Egypt. It should come whence they did not expect, with a fierceness and terribleness which they imagined not.

Regard - look narrowly, weigh well what it portends.

And wonder marvelously - literally, “be amazed, amazed.” The word is doubled to express how amazement should follow upon amazement; when the first was passing away, new source of amazement should come; for .

I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. - So incredible it will be, and so against their wills! He does not say, “ye would not believe if it were told you;” much less “if it were told you of others;” in which case the chief thought would be left unexpressed. No condition is expressed. It is simply foretold, what was verified by the whole history of their resistance to the Chaldees until the capture of the city; “Ye will not believe, when it shall be told you.” So it ever is. Man never believes that God is in earnest until His judgments come. So it was before the flood, and with Sodom, and with Lot’s sons-in-law; so it was with Ahab and Jezebel; so with this destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans, and what is shadowed forth, by the Romans. So Jeremiah complained Jeremiah 5:12, “They have belied the Lord, and said, it is not He; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine,” and Jeremiah 20:7-8, “I am in derision daily; everyone mocketh me. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision daily;” and Isaiah Isaiah 53:1, “Who hath believed our report?” and John the Immerser speaks as though it were desperate Matthew 3:7; “O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” and our Lord tells them Matthew 23:38; Luke 13:35, “Your house is left unto you desolate.”

And yet they believed not, but delivered Him up to be put to death, lest that should be, which did come, because they put Him to death John 11:48. “If we let Him thus alone, all people will believe on Him; and the Romans shall come, and take away both our place and nation.” Therefore, Paul applies these words to the Jews in his day, because the destruction of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar was an image of the destruction of the second temple (which by divine appointment, contrary to man’s intention, took place on the same day ), and the Chaldaeans were images of the Romans, that second Babylon, pagan Rome; and both foreshowed the worse destruction by a fiercer enemy - the enemy of souls - the spiritual wasting and desolation which came upon the Jew first, and which shall come on all who disobey the gospel. So it shall be to the end. Even now, the Jews believe not, whose work their own dispersion is; His, who by them was crucified, but who has “all power in heaven and in earth” Matthew 28:18. The Day of Judgment will come like a thief in the night to those who believe not or obey not our Lord’s words.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 5. Behold ye among the heathen — Instead of בגוים baggoyim, among the nations or heathen, some critics think we should read בגדים bogedim, transgressors; and to the same purpose the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic have read; and thus it is quoted by St. Paul, Acts 13:41. But neither this, nor any tantamount reading, is found in any of the MSS. yet collated. Newcome translates, "See, ye transgressors, and behold a wonder, and perish."

I will work a work in your days — As he is speaking of the desolation that should be produced by the Chaldeans, it follows, as Bp. Newcome has justly observed, that the Chaldeans invaded Judah whilst those were living whom the prophet addressed.

Which ye will not believe — Nor did they, after all the declarations of various prophets. They still supposed that God would not give them up into the hands of their enemies, though they continued in their abominations!

It is evident that St. Paul, in the above place, accommodates this prediction to his own purpose. And possibly this sense might have been the intention of the Divine Spirit when he first spoke the words to the prophet; for, as God works in reference to eternity, so he speaks in reference to the same; and therefore there is an infinity of meaning in his WORD. These appear to be the words of God in answer to the prophet, in which he declares he will entirely ruin this wicked people by means of the Chaldeans.