Habakkuk 3

Habakkuk 3:2

Terrified by thine answers to my former complaints, Lord, I beseech thee to support thy people under these calamities, and under their captivity give them some tokens of thy favour, and some mitigation of trouble. 3, 4. How wonderful were thy appearances for thy people on former occasions! At the giving of the law on mount Sinai the whole firmament shone with the rays of thy glory, and the earth rang with thy praise; and yet that was but a very scanty manifestation of thy power. 5, 6. By divers plagues thou didst destroy the Egyptians and Canaanites. And, taking up thy abode in the ark, thou didst expel the latter, and gave their land to thy people. The mightiest giants and best fortified cities were forced to yield; and thy dispensations are, in every age, powerful and gracious

Habakkuk 3:7

The Midianites, who trembled at the earthquakes occasioned by the descent on mount Sinai, were afterwards marvellously destroyed by Phinehas and Gideon

Habakkuk 3:8-10

Not from any displeasure 10 H CHAP. I. Ver. 3—6. Idols, and other occasions of sinful courses, are here called stumbling-blocks. Notwithstanding Josiah’s care to reform Judea, some continued to worship Baal: and the Chemarim, or black ones, were the idolatrous priests. Some mingled the worship of JEHOVAH and Malcham, or Molech, together: and some, who had been zealous in Josiah’s reformation, had apostatized to idolatry. 7. The slaughtered Jews were the sacrifice to God’s just vengeance; and the Chaldeans were the guests appointed by God not only to slay them, but to feed upon and devour their wealth and substance. 5. They who leap on the threshold are either idolatrous priests, who jumped over the thresholds of their temples; or rather servants, who insolently entered the houses of pretended malefactors, to plunder them for their masters

Habakkuk 3:12

God will manifest and punish the most secret abominations, particularly of those who, from Atheistical principles, are become hardened and secure in wickedness

Habakkuk 3:14-18

These expressions denote the terrible, confounding, ruinous, and desolating, nature of the Chaldean and Roman invasions