Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
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1The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Cross References
Job 19:7Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
Psalms 22:1To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.
Psalms 74:9We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.
Jeremiah 14:9Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.
Revelation 6:10And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those 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 →