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Habakkuk
Chapter 1
1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
2
O Jehovah/God,
how
long shall I cry,
and
You will not hear!
Even
cry out unto You of violence,
and
You will not deliver!
3
Why do You show me iniquity,
and
cause me to behold grievance?
For spoiling and violence are before me.
And there are those who raise up strife and contention.
4
Therefore the law is slacked,
and
judgment does never go forth . . .
for
the wicked does compass about the righteous.
Therefore wrong judgment proceeds.
{Paul
quotes in Acts 13:41}
5~~Behold
you among the heathen,
and
regard,
and
wonder marvelously
for
I will work a work in your days,
which
you 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.
{Description
of Chaldean Cavalry}
8~~
Their horses are swifter than the leopards,
{speaking figuratively - very swift horses}
and
are keener/sharp/alert {chadad}
than
the wolves in the evening
{nose up and sniffs for a meal - radar is out - great alertness}.
And
their horses 'paw the ground'
{means they are combat trained and ready to go}
and
their riders shall come from far.
{cover great distances on marches}
They
fly like the eagle that swoops down to devour.
{analogy of their agility in combat - used also in II Samuel 1:23}
9 They shall come all for violence.
Their
faces shall sup up as the east wind,
and
they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
10
And they shall scoff at the kings,
and
the princes shall be a scorn unto them.
They
shall deride every strong hold . . .
for
they shall heap dust, and take it.
11
Then shall his mind change,
and
he shall pass over,
and
offend,
imputing
this his power unto his god/'elowahh.
12
{Are} You not from everlasting,
O
Jehovah/God my 'Elohiym/Godhead,
my
Holy One?
We shall not die.
O
Jehovah/God, You have ordained them for judgment;
and,
O Mighty,
You
have established them for correction.
13
You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
and
can not look on iniquity.
Why
do You look upon them that deal treacherously,
and
hold Your tongue
when
the wicked devours
the
man that is more righteous than he?
14
And make men as the fishes of the sea,
as
the creeping things,
that
have no ruler over them?
15
They take up all of them with the angle,
they
catch them in their net,
and
gather them in their drag.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net,
and
burn incense unto their drag . . .
because
by them their portion is fat,
and
their meat plenteous.
17
Shall they therefore empty their net,
and
not spare continually to slay the nations?
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