Habakkuk 1:2
O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.
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In Context
1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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 hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 74:9We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Jeremiah 14:9Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
Revelation 6:10and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that 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 →