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For thirty years, John MacArthur has spent nearly thirty hours a week studying the Bible, taking detailed notes, and teaching people what he learns. The result is The MacArthur Study Bible. With The MacArthur Study Bible you will have help understanding difficult passages, simplifying complex doctrines, and bridging important culture, geography, history, and language gaps. It can help bring your...

1:1 burden. A weighty, heavy oracle of judgment (cf. 1:5–11; 2:2–20) is often depicted by this term when employed by the prophets to announce God’s wrath against sin (e.g., Is. 13:1; 15:1; 17:1; 19:1; Nah. 1:1; Zech. 9:1; 12:1; Mal. 1:1). saw. God’s message to Habakkuk took the form of a vision. 1:2–4 In Habakkuk’s first complaint, he perceived that God appeared indifferent to Judah’s sin. Jealous for His righteousness and knowing that a breach of the covenant required judgment (cf. Deut. 28), Habakkuk