Habakkuk 3:2
O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet concerning erring ones:
Cross References
Exodus 32:10and now, let Me alone, and My anger doth burn against them, and I consume them, and I make thee become a great nation.'
Numbers 16:46and Moses saith unto Aaron, 'Take the censer, and put on it fire from off the altar, and place perfume, and go, hasten unto the company, and make atonement for them, for the wrath hath gone out from the presence of Jehovah — the plague hath begun.'
2 Chronicles 34:27Because thy heart [is] tender, and thou art humbled before God in thy hearing His words concerning this place, and concerning its inhabitants, and art humbled before Me, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me: even I also have heard — the affirmation of Jehovah.
Job 4:12And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.
Psalms 25:6Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age [are] they.
Psalms 44:1To the Overseer. — By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work 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 →