Habakkuk 3:1

A PRAYER OF HABACUC THE PROPHET FOR IGNORANCES.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

In Context

2O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

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Cross References

Psalms 7:1The psalm of David which he sung to the Lord for the words of Chusi the son of Jemini. [2 Kings 16.]

Psalms 90:1A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 3:1

Still the correspondence is kept up between God and his prophet. In the first chapter he spoke to God, then God to him, and then he to God again; in the second chapter God spoke wholly to him by the Spirit of prophecy; now, in this chapter , he speaks wholly to God by the Spirit of prayer, for he would not let the intercourse drop on his side, like a genuine son of Abraham, who "returned not to his place until God had left communing with him." Gen. xviii. 33 . The prophet's prayer, in this chapter, is in imitation… Read the whole commentary →

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