Habakkuk 3:2
Lord, I heard what has been said about you, and I was afraid. Lord, your work, in the midst of years, revive it. In the midst of years, you will make it known. When you have become angry, you will remember mercy.
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1A Prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet on Behalf of Those Who Are Ignorant.
Cross References
Exodus 32:10Release me, so that my fury may be enraged against them, and I may destroy them, and then I will make of you a great nation.”
Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron: “Take the censer, and draw fire into it from the altar; place incense upon it, and continue on, quickly, to the people, to pray for them. For already wrath has gone forth from the Lord, and the scourge rages.”
2 Chronicles 34:27and your heart was softened, and you humbled yourself in the sight of God concerning these things which have been said against this place and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and since, revering my face, you have torn your garments, and have wept before me: I also have heeded you, says the Lord.
Job 4:12Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.
Psalms 25:6I will wash my hands among the innocent, and I will surround your altar, O Lord,
Psalms 44:1Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 3:2-3
The Prophet's Prayer. ( b. c. 600.) 1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. 2 O Lord , I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord , revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. This chapter is entitled a prayer of Habakkuk. It is a meditation with himself, an intercession for the church. Prophets were praying men; this prophet was so ( He is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, Gen. xx. 7 ); and sometimes they prayed for even those… Read the whole commentary →