Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and thou wilt not hearken? how long shall I cry out to thee being injured, and thou wilt not save?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
1The burden which the prophet Ambacum saw.
Cross References
Job 19:7Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment.
Psalms 22:1A Psalm of David. The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall want nothing.
Psalms 74:9For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and he has + 74:9 Gr. from this into that.turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them.
Jeremiah 14:9Wilt thou be as a man asleep, or as a strong man that cannot save? yet thou art among us, O Lord, and thy name is called upon us; forget us not.
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 →