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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?...

mišpāṭ is twisted. Note the chiasmus in the placement of mišpāṭ in lines 4aB and 4bB, which suggests some connection between the two occurrences. Perhaps we need not be very concerned about the logical contradiction between vv 4aB and 4bB. This kind of thinking is often met in the Bible. The best resolution is to see here another instance of pseudosorites: The verdict never comes forth; (but, if it does come forth,) the verdict comes forth twisted. See the discussions of pseudosorites in AB
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