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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...

[4] After this admonition to patiently await the fulfillment of the vision, the vision itself is still not related; there follows instead a portrayal of two contrasting responses to the vision. The textual difficulties in the verse makes it difficult to characterize the first response with any degree of certainty. Any interpretation of this response will be clouded by a certain amount of hypothetical guesswork. If my structural analysis in the text-critical notes is correct, the first response is
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