Habakkuk 3:1

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigyonoth.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

In Context

2O Lord, I have heard thy fame, [and] was afraid: O Lord, thy work—in the midst of the years [of sorrow] revive thou it, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

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Cross References

Psalms 7:1“A Shiggayon of David, which he sang unto the Lord, concerning the affairs of Cush the Benjamite.” (7:2) O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust; save me from every one of my persecutors, and deliver me:

Psalms 90:1BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations.

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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