Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not listen? how long shall I cry out to you being injured, and you will not save?
LXX2012 (US English)
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 22:1The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing. 1
Psalms 74:9But I will exult for ever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 1
Jeremiah 14:9Will you be as a man asleep, or as a strong man that can’t save? yet you are among us, O Lord, and your 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 →