the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bible Commentaries
Geneva Study Bible Geneva Study Bible
Habakkuk's Complaint; God's Response About the Chaldeans.Chapter 2
Vision of Judgment; the Righteous Live by Faith.Chapter 3
Habakkuk's Prayer; Praise for God's Mighty Works.
- Habakkuk
by Editor - Theodore Beza
The Argument - The Prophet complains to God, considering the great felicity of the wicked, and the miserable oppression of the godly, who endure all types of affliction and cruelty, and yet can see no end. Therefore he had this revelation shown to him by God, that the Chaldeans would come and take them away as captives, so that they could look for no end of their troubles as yet, because of their stubbornness and rebellion against the Lord. And lest the godly should despair, seeing this horrible confusion, he comforts them by this, that God will punish the Chaldeans their enemies, when their pride and cruelty will be at height. And for this reason he exhorts the faithful to patience by his own example, and shows them a form of prayer, with which they should comfort themselves.
