Habacuc 1:6

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Porque eis que suscito os caldeus, nao amarga e apressada, que marcha sobre a largura da terra, para possuir moradas no suas.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Porque eis que suscito os caldeus, nao amarga e impetuosa, que marcha sobre a largura da terra, para apoderar-se de moradas que no so suas.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Pois eis que suscito os caldeus, nao amarga e impetuosa, que marcham pela largura da terra, para apoderar-se de moradas que no so suas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I raise: Deuteronomy 28:49-52, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Isaiah 23:13, Isaiah 39:6, Isaiah 39:7, Jeremiah 1:15, Jeremiah 1:16, Jeremiah 4:6, Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 5:15, Jeremiah 6:22, Jeremiah 6:23, Jeremiah 21:4, Jeremiah 25:9

breadth: Heb. breadths

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:34 - were merry 2 Kings 9:20 - driving Job 1:17 - The Chaldeans Isaiah 29:20 - the terrible Jeremiah 5:12 - have belied Jeremiah 10:22 - the noise Jeremiah 13:20 - and Jeremiah 21:7 - he shall Jeremiah 50:42 - they are cruel Ezekiel 7:24 - I will bring Ezekiel 16:40 - shall also Ezekiel 21:31 - and skilful Ezekiel 23:22 - I will raise Ezekiel 28:7 - the terrible Ezekiel 30:11 - the terrible Ezekiel 31:12 - strangers Ezekiel 32:12 - the terrible Daniel 7:4 - like Micah 5:1 - gather Habakkuk 1:9 - for Habakkuk 3:16 - he will Zephaniah 1:16 - day Hebrews 2:1 - let them slip Revelation 20:9 - went

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans,.... A people still of late mean and low, famous only for their soothsaying, divination, and judicial astrology; but now become a powerful and warlike people, rising up under the permission of Providence to universal monarchy, and who would quickly add Judea to the rest of their dominions:

[that] bitter and hasty nation; a cruel and merciless people in their temper and disposition: "bitter" against the people of God and true religion, and causing bitterness, calamities, and distress, wherever they came: "hasty" and precipitate in their determinations; swift and nimble in their motions; active and vigorous in the prosecution of their designs:

which shall march through the breadth of the land; or "breadths of the land" t; through the whole world, as they were attempting to do, having subdued Syria, all Asia, and great part of Africa, through which they boldly marched, bearing down all opposition that was in their way; or through the breadth of the land of Judea, taking all the fenced cities as they went along, and Jerusalem the metropolis of it; see Isaiah 8:7:

to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs; the cities of Judea, and houses in them, as well as the palaces and dwellingplaces in Jerusalem, which they had no right unto, but what they got by the sword; what were the legal possessions and inheritances of others from father to son for ages past, these the Chaldeans would dispossess them of; and not only take them, and the spoil and plunder of them, for the present, but retain them in their possession, as an inheritance to be transmitted to their posterity. This may have some respect to the length of the captivity of the Jews, and their land being in the hands of their enemies for the space of seventy years.

t למרחבי ארץ "latitudines terrae", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For lo - So God announces a future, in which His Hand shall be greatly visible, whether more or less distant. In His sight it is present.

I raise up - God uses the free will and evil passions of people or devils to His own ends; and so He is said to “raise up” those whom He allows to be stirred up against His people, since the events which His Providence permits, favor their designs, and it rests with Him to withhold them. They lift themselves up for some end of covetousness or pride. But there is a higher order of things, in which God orders their actions to fulfill His righteousness by their iniquities.

The Chaldaeans, that bitter - מר. In Judges 18:25; 2 Samuel 17:8, the less concise נפשׁ מר.

And hasty nation - נמהר as Isaiah 32:4. Jerome: “To its might and warlike boldness almost all the Greeks who have written histories of the barbarians, witness.”

Which shall march through the breadth of the land - rather, “the earth,” literally “to the breadths of the earth,” reaching to its whole length and breadth, all its dimensions as in the description of Gog and Magog Revelation 20:8-9, “the number of whom is as the sand of the sea; and they went up on the breadth of the earth; unhindered, not pent up, but spreading abroad, where they will, over the whole earth.” All before it, is one wide even plain which it overspreads and covers, like a flood, and yet is not spent nor exhausted.

To possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs - As God’s people had done, so should it be done to them. Spoiling and violence within Habakkuk 1:2-4 attract oppression from without. The overcharged atmosphere casts down the lightning upon them. They had expelled the weak from their dwelling Micah 2:9; others shall possess theirs. Yet this scourge too shall pass by, since, although the Chaldaean did God’s Will, He willed it not, but His own (See Isaiah 10:6-7). The words, “not theirs,” literally, “not to him” stand with a mysterious fullness of meaning. The dwelling places not being his by right, shall not remain his, although given to him, while God wills.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. That bitter and hasty nation — Cruel and oppressive in their disposition; and prompt and speedy in their assaults and conquests.