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Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary builds on the work of previous scholarship and addresses contemporary issues. It gives serious attention to questions of textual criticism, philology, history, and Near Eastern backgrounds and is sensitive to the literary conventions characteristic of the prophetic literature of the Old Testament. The book is an earnest attempt to hear the message of the ancient prophets, a...

Commentary Habakkuk 1:2–4 gives voice to the prophet’s questions about God’s justice in the form of an individual lament. In traditional fashion, Habakkuk complains that God does not intervene to save the just and punish the wicked. The conditions that provoked this lament, if one may judge from the vocabulary used and from the fact that the Babylonians are offered as God’s solution to the problem (vs. 5ff.), appear to be problems internal to Judean society. Jeremiah also used the lament form and
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