Habacuc 3:16

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Ouvindo-o eu, o meu ventre se comoveu, sua voz tremeram os meus lbios; entrou a podrido nos meus ossos, e estremeci dentro de mim; descanse eu no dia da angstia, quando ele vier contra o povo que nos destruir.

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A Biblia Sagrada
Ouvindo-o eu, o meu ventre se comoveu, sua voz tremeram os meus lbios; entrou a podrido nos meus ossos, e estremeci dentro de mim; no dia da angstia descansarei, quando subir contra o povo que invadir com suas tropas.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Ouvi-o, e o meu ntimo se comoveu, sua voz, tremeram os meus lbios; entrou a podrido nos meus ossos, e os joelhos me vacilaram, pois, em silncio, devo esperar o dia da angstia, que vir contra o povo que nos acomete.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I heard: Habakkuk 3:2, Habakkuk 1:5-11

my belly: Psalms 119:120, Jeremiah 23:9, Ezekiel 3:14, Daniel 8:27, Daniel 10:8

that I: Psalms 91:15, Psalms 94:12, Psalms 94:13, Isaiah 26:20, Isaiah 26:21, Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 15:11, Jeremiah 45:3-5, Ezekiel 9:4-6, 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9

he will: Habakkuk 1:6, Deuteronomy 28:49-52, 2 Kings 24:1, 2 Kings 24:2, Jeremiah 25:9-11

invade them: or cut them in pieces

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:8 - his spirit Deuteronomy 28:51 - which also Deuteronomy 28:65 - the Lord Job 4:14 - Fear Job 21:6 - Even when Job 23:15 - General Job 37:1 - General Psalms 94:19 - General Psalms 119:53 - horror Proverbs 12:4 - as Isaiah 6:5 - said I Isaiah 21:3 - are Isaiah 28:19 - and it Isaiah 66:2 - trembleth Jeremiah 4:19 - My bowels Jeremiah 6:24 - We have Jeremiah 8:18 - my Lamentations 1:13 - above Lamentations 1:20 - my bowels Ezekiel 3:15 - sat Ezekiel 21:6 - with the Daniel 7:15 - was grieved Hosea 11:10 - shall tremble Amos 5:13 - an evil Micah 5:1 - gather Matthew 24:6 - see Luke 8:47 - she came Acts 9:6 - trembling Acts 24:25 - Felix Revelation 1:17 - I fell

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I heard, my belly trembled,.... His bowels, his heart within him, at the report made of what would come to pass in future time; and not so much at hearing of the judgments of God that should come upon the enemies of his Church, antichrist and his followers; though even these are awful and tremendous to good men; see

Psalms 119:120 but upon hearing what troubles and distresses would come upon the churches of Christ, previous to these, afterwards called a day of trouble in this verse, and more particularly described in the next Habakkuk 3:17:

my lips quivered at the voice; at the voice of these words, as the Targum; at the voice of the Lord, expressing and foretelling these calamities, through fear and dread, consternation and amazement; under which circumstances the natural heat of the outward parts of the body retires to defend the heart, and leaves them trembling and quivering, particularly the lips, so that they lose their use for a time; and a person in such a case can hardly speak:

rottenness entered into my bones; he became weak and without strength, as if he had long been in a wasting consumption; or was at once deprived of all his strength, and it was turned into corruption; see Daniel 10:8:

and I trembled in myself; within himself, in all his inward parts, as well as in his outward parts: or, "under myself" x; was not able to keep his place, could not stand upon the ground that was under him; his knees trembled, as the Syriac version:

that I might rest in the day of trouble; rather, as Noldius y renders the particle, "yet", or "notwithstanding, I shall rest in the day of trouble"; which had been represented to him in vision; and which he had a sight of by a spirit of prophecy, as coming upon the church of Christ, and had given him that concern before expressed. The Syriac version of this and the next clause, which it joins, is, "he showed me the day of calamity, which is about to come upon the people". Here begins the prophet's expression of his strong faith and joy in the midst of all the distresses he saw were at hand; herein representing the church, and all true believers helped to exercise faith in those worst of times. This "day of trouble" is the same with the hour of temptation that shall come upon all the earth to try the inhabitants of it; the time of the slaying of the witnesses, which will be such a time of trouble as never was in the world; see Revelation 3:10. The "rest" the people of God will have then, which the prophet had faith in for them, will lie in the Lord's protection and keeping of his people; his perfections, power, and providence, are the chambers of rest and safety he will call them unto, and the shadow of his wings, which they will make their refuge till these calamities and indignation be overpast, Isaiah 26:20

when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops; or rather "him"; not "the people"; the people of God, "he" the Lord or Christ comes unto; but the enemy of them: this is the ground of the prophet's faith and confidence before expressed, or of the church's he personated; namely, that when Christ, Michael the great Prince, should come up to his people, appear for them, and stand on their side, he would lead his troops and march his army against their grand enemy antichrist; and "cut him to pieces" z, as some render the word: so Christ is represented as a mighty warrior, marching at the head of his troops, the armies of heaven following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, who are the called, chosen, and faithful; and with these he will fall upon the beast, the false prophet, and the kings of the earth, gathered together at Armageddon, and utterly destroy them, Revelation 16:14.

x תחתי "subtus me", Drusius, De Dieu; "subter me", Cocceius, Van Till. y Ebr. Concord. Part p. 108. No. 550. z יגודנו "ut excidat eum", Calvin; "succidet eum", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When I heard - , better, “I heard and ...” The prophet sums up, resuming that same declaration with which he had begun, “I heard, I was afraid.” Only now he expresses far more strongly both his awe at God’s judgments and his hopes. He had just beheld the image of the destruction of Pharaoh, the end of the brief triumphing of the wicked and of the trials of God’s people. But awful as are all the judgments of God upon the enemies of His people, it was not this alone which was the object of his terror. This was deliverance. It was the whole course of God’s dispensations, which he had heard; God’s punishment of His people for their sins, and the excision of their oppressors, who, in His Providence, fulfilling their own evil end, executed His chastisements upon them. The deliverances, which shadowed out the future, had their dark side, in that they were deliverances. The whole course of this world is one series of man’s unfaithfulnesses or sins, God’s chastisements of them through their fellow-sinners, and His ultimate overt brow of the aggressors. Those first three centuries of glorious martyrdoms were, on the one side, the malice and hatred of Satan and the world against the truth; on the other side, the prophets of those days told their people that they were the chastisements of their sins. Future deliverance implies previous chastisement of those delivered. The prophet then, at the close, in view of all, for himself and all whose perplexities he represented and pleaded before God, chooses his and their portion. “Suffer here and rest forever!” “Endure here any terror, any failure of hopes, yet trust wholly in God, have rest in the day of trouble and sing the endless song!” Again he casts himself back amid all the troubles of this life.

I heard - (i. e. that speech of God uttering judgments to come) “and my belly,” the whole inward self, bodily and mental, all his hidden powers, trembled , “vibrated” as it were, “Sin every fibre of his frame,” at the wrath of God; “my lips quivered at the voice of God,” so that they almost refused their office and could hardly fulfill the prophetic duty and utter the terrors which he had heard; his very strongest parts, the bones, which keep the whole frame of man together, that he be not a shapeless mass, and which remain unconsumed long after the rest has wasted away in the grave, “rottenness entered into them,” corruption and mouldering eating into them; and “I trembled in myself” (literally under me) so that he was a burden to himself and sank unable to support himself, “that I might rest in the day of trouble.”

All up to this time was weariness and terror, and now at once all is repose; the prophet is carried, as it were, over the troubles of this life and the decay of the grave to the sweetness of everlasting rest I, the same, suffer these things, terror, quivering, rottenness in the very bones themselves. “I (literally) who shall rest in the day of trouble.” I who had not rest until then, shall enter into rest then in the very day of trouble to all who found their rest in the world not in God, the day of judgment Psalms 94:12-13.. “Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him in Thy law, that Thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity, until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.”

“O my soul; had we daily to bear tortures, had we for a long time to endure hell itself, that we might see Christ in His glory and be the companion of His saints, were it not worth enduring all sorrow, that we might be partakers of so exceeding a good, such exceeding glory?”

When he cometh up unto the people, he shall invade them with his troops - or, which is probably meant, “when he cometh up who shall invade them.” It is a filling out of “the day of trouble.” However, near the trouble came, he, under the protection of God and in firm trust in Him, would be at rest in Him. The troubles of God’s prophets are not the outward troubles, but the sins of their people which bring those troubles, the offence against the majesty of God, the loss of souls. Jeremiah was more at rest in the court of the prison, than when all the people did curse him Jeremiah 15:10 for telling them God’s truth. He who fears God and His judgments betimes, shall rest in perfect tranquility when those judgments come. The immediate trouble was the fierce assault of the Chaldees whose terror he had described; and this, picturing, as through the prophecy, all other judgments of God even to the last, when devils shall contend about the souls of people, as Satan did about the body of Moses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 3:16. When I heard, my belly trembled — The prophet, having finished his account of the wonders done by Jehovah, in bringing their fathers from Egypt into the promised land, now returns to the desolate state of his countrymen, who are shortly to be led into captivity, and suffer the most grievous afflictions; and although he had a sure word of prophecy that they should be ultimately delivered, yet the thoughts of the evils they must previously endure filled his soul with terror and dismay; so that he wishes to be removed from earth before this tribulation should come, that his eyes might not behold the desolations of his country.

When he (Nebuchadnezzar) cometh up unto the people, (the Jews,) he will invade them (overpower and carry them away captive) with his troops.