Habakkuk 3:1
Yahweh, I have heard about you; I revere you because of all the amazing things that you have done. In our time, do again some of those things that you did long ago! Even when you are angry with us, be merciful to us!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 7:1Yahweh my God, I come to you to protect me. Rescue me, save me from all those who are pursuing me in order to harm me.
Psalms 90:1Lord, you have always ◄been like a home for us/protected us► [MET].
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 →