Habakkuk 1:2
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
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1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
Cross References
Job 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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 roaring?
Psalms 74:9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Jeremiah 14:9Why should you be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not.
Revelation 6:10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that 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 →