Habakkuk 1:12
Aren't you from everlasting, Lord my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Lord, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
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In Context
11Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect,for all his ways are justice:a God of faithfulness and without iniquity,just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place.Underneath are the everlasting arms.He thrust out the enemy from before you,and said, 'Destroy!'
2 Kings 19:25Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Psalms 18:1For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,I love you, Lord, my strength.
Psalms 90:1A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
Psalms 93:2Your throne is established from long ago.You are from everlasting.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:6-12
Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more… Read the whole commentary →