prophets and he expected them to be his people’s watchmen. A watchman was like a sentinel, a sentry on duty on behalf of the people, stationed to warn them of the cost of departing from God’s law and God’s way. Habakkuk’s watching and waiting, however, take a different stance altogether. ‘Habakkuk looks in the other direction. He wants to see how God will act in the light of the stipulation found in the covenant, to which he also is a signatory, that sin necessitates punishment.’3 In other words,