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Habakkuk: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Habakkuk (one of the twelve Minor Prophets) is an intensely personal testimony played out against a highly political backdrop. Writing as his land and his fellow Israelites were being invaded and plundered by the Chaldeans, Habakkuk questions God’s actions with a passion equal to Job’s. Habakkuk wonders, how can a God who is just and compassionate allow his people to be slaughtered?...

Look around, because the LORD is about to perform a deed Be astounded (because) you will not believe it! 6. raising up. The divine intention was announced several times in this form: 2 Sam 12:11; Amos 6:14 (this does not warrant the addition of “against you” to Hab 1:6); Zech 11:16. All these passages are referring to impending judgments. For the idiom, compare Mic 5:4 and Jer 5:15 (contemporary, with mēbîʾ). Jer 5:15; 6:22 similarly describe the calling up of an invader by Yahweh. Unlike some
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