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Habakkuk 1:12-17

King James Version (KJV)

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12. [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. 13. [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he? 14. And makest 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?

Habakkuk 1:12-17 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Habakkuk 1:12

Theological / Devotional

Art thou not? Habakkuk, speaking for his people, appeals to God for mercy that they do not perish (vs. 12-17). Looking beyond the forbidding prospects of the present, the prophet affirms, in faith, “We shall not die” (see PK 386). Judgment. Here used in the sense of “punishment.” Mighty God. Heb. Sur, “Rock” (see Deut. 32:31; 2 Sam. 22:3, 47). This title emphasizes the thought that God is a sure and unmoved support of His people. The final clause of the Hebrew text quoted in the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls (see p. 1047) reads, “O Rock as One chastising him hast Thou ordained him.”

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