Habakkuk 3:2
LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
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1A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
Cross References
Exodus 32:10Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD! The plague has begun.”
2 Chronicles 34:27because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.
Job 4:12“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
Psalms 25:6LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
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 →