Habakkuk 1:2
LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
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1The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Cross References
Job 19:7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 74:9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Jeremiah 14:9Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, LORD, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
Revelation 6:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
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 →