Habakkuk 3
About HabakkukWritten by AI
Habakkuk is different from most prophetic books. Instead of speaking God's word to the people, Habakkuk speaks to God, and the book records their conversation. He lived in Judah near the end of the 600s BC, as Babylon was rising and violence filled his own land.
Habakkuk asks the questions many believers ask. Why does God let evil go on? And when God answers that He will use Babylon to judge Judah, Habakkuk asks how a holy God could use a nation even worse. God's reply includes a line the New Testament quotes three times: “but the righteous will live by faith.”
Watch the movement from complaint to worship. Nothing in Habakkuk's circumstances has changed by chapter 3, but he has. He ends by choosing joy in God even if every crop and flock fails.
Before you read Habakkuk 3Written by AI
Habakkuk's prayer, written like a psalm. He remembers God's mighty acts in the past, pictured as a storm marching across the earth, and he trembles. Then comes one of the great statements of faith in Scripture: though fig, vine, olive, field, and flock all fail, “yet I will exult in the LORD.”
Habakkuk’s Prayer
This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:
O LORD, I have heard the report of You;
I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds.
Revive them in these years;
make them known in these years.
In Your wrath, remember mercy!
God came from Teman,
and the Holy One from Mount Paran.
Selah
His glory covered the heavens,
and His praise filled the earth.
His radiance was like the sunlight;
rays flashed from His hand,
where His power is hidden.
Plague went before Him,
and fever followed in His steps.
He stood and measured the earth;
He looked and startled the nations;
the ancient mountains crumbled;
the perpetual hills collapsed.
His ways are everlasting.
I saw the tents of Cushan in distress;
the curtains of Midian were trembling.
Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD?
Was Your wrath against the streams?
Did You rage against the sea
when You rode on Your horses,
on Your chariots of salvation?
You brandished Your bow;
You called for many arrows.
Selah
You split the earth with rivers.
The mountains saw You and quaked;
torrents of water swept by.
The deep roared with its voice
and lifted its hands on high.
Sun and moon stood still
in their places
at the flash of Your flying arrows,
at the brightness of Your shining spear.
You marched across the earth with fury;
You threshed the nations in wrath.
You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
to save Your anointed.
You crushed the head of the house of the wicked
and stripped him from head to toe.
Selah
With his own spear You pierced his head,
when his warriors stormed out to scatter us,
gloating as though ready
to secretly devour the weak.
You trampled the sea with Your horses,
churning the great waters.
I heard and trembled within;
my lips quivered at the sound.
Decay entered my bones;
I trembled where I stood.
Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress
to come upon the people who invade us.
Habakkuk Rejoices
Though the fig tree does not bud
and no fruit is on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though the sheep are cut off from the fold
and no cattle are in the stalls,
yet I will exult in the LORD;
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
GOD the Lord is my strength;
He makes my feet like those of a deer;
He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.