Habakkuk 1:2

“Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear? 1 I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you will not save. 1

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O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

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1The message that Habakkuk the prophet received, 1

3Why do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing? 1 Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up. 1

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Cross References

Job 19:7See, I cry out, “Violence!” but I get no answer. 1 I call out for help, but there is no justice. 1

Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 1 Why are you so far from saving me and far from the words of my anguish? 1

Psalms 74:9We do not see any more signs; 1 there is no prophet any more, 1 and no one among us knows how long this will last. 1

Jeremiah 14:9Why are you like someone who is astounded, or like a warrior who has no power to rescue? 2 You are in our midst, Yahweh, and your name is called over us. Do not leave us! 1

Revelation 6:10They cried out with a loud voice, “How long, Ruler over all, holy and true, until you judge those who live on the earth, and until you avenge our blood?”

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 →

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