Habakkuk 3:2
O Lord, I have heard your report, and was afraid: I considered your works, and was amazed: you shall be known between the two living creatures, you shall be acknowledged when the years draw near; you shall be manifested when the time is come; when my soul is troubled, you will in wrath remember mercy.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
1A PRAYER OF THE PROPHET AMBACUM, WITH A SONG.
3God shall come from Thaeman, and the Holy One from the dark shady mount Pharan. Pause.
Cross References
Exodus 32:10And now let me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make you a great nation.
Numbers 16:46And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put on it fire from the altar, and put incense on it, and carry it away quickly into the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, it has begun to destroy the people.
2 Chronicles 34:27forasmuch as your heart was ashamed, and you were humbled before me when you heard my words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and you were humbled before me, and did rend your garments, and did weep before me; I also have heard, says the Lord.
Job 4:12But if there had been any truth in your words, none of these evils would have befallen you. Shall not my ear receive excellent revelations from him?
Psalms 25:6I will wash my hands in + 25:6 Gr. innocent things. innocency, and compass your altar, O Lord: 1
Psalms 44:1My heart + 44:1 Lit. eructavit. has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer. 1
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 3:2-3
The Prophet's Prayer. ( b. c. 600.) 1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. 2 O Lord , I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord , revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. This chapter is entitled a prayer of Habakkuk. It is a meditation with himself, an intercession for the church. Prophets were praying men; this prophet was so ( He is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, Gen. xx. 7 ); and sometimes they prayed for even those… Read the whole commentary →