Habakkuk 1:2
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Cross References
Job 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?
Psalms 74:9We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long.
Jeremiah 14:9Why should thou be as a man frightened, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name. Do not leave us.
Revelation 6:10And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:2-5
Habakkuk It is a very foolish fancy of some of the Jewish rabbin that this prophet was the son of the Shunamite woman that was at first miraculously given, and afterwards raised to life, by Elisha ( 2 Kings iv. ), as they say also that the prophet Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath, which Elijah raised to life. It is a more probable conjecture of their modern chronologers that he lived and prophesied in the reign of king Manasseh, when wickedness abounded, and destruction was hastening on, destruction by… Read the whole commentary →