Habbakuk

[lotuseskimo]

I need help understandin Habbakuk, it is the phrophets, I came across it and it just pops out at me, I love to read it so much!!

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

I need help understandin Habbakuk, it is the phrophets, I came across it and it just pops out at me, I love to read it so much!!

Hi. That book is indeed an awsome part of the OC and starts his prophecy off with "The-Burden/Load" and that hebrew word has the article "the" associated with it in only 9 places in the OC. Don't really have time to go into it now as I would have to translate it.

This hebrew/greek interlinear can help and is what I use to read the Bible with a lot. Peace.

http://www.scripture4all.org/

Habakkuk 1:1 The-burden/load/04853 massa' of which Habakkuk/Chabaqquwq the prophet saw:

The-burden/load [used 9 times in OC.]

04853 massa' {mas-saw'} from 05375; TWOT - 1421d,1421e;
AV - burden 57, song 3, prophecy 2, set 1, exaction 1, carry away 1,
tribute 1; 66

02265 Chabaqquwq {khab-ak-kook'}
by reduplication from 02263;; n pr m
AV - Habakkuk 2; 2
Habakkuk = "embrace"
1) a prophet of Israel who wrote the book by that name; probably
lived about the 12th or 13th year of the reign of Josiah

http://www.olivetree.com/cgi-bin/EnglishBible.htm

NKJV) Habakkuk 1:1 The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.
NASB) Habakkuk 1:1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Rotherham) Habakkuk 1:1 The oracle of which Habakkuk the prophet, had vision:
Young) Habakkuk 1:1 The burden that Habakkuk the prophet hath seen:

 

[Krelian]

The name 'Habakkuk' means "an embracer."
This bears significance in that two verses near the middle of the book.

Habakkuk 2:3~4
"[T]he vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright within him: but the just shall live by his faith."

These are hopeful words, no?

After all Habakkuk's lamentable prophecies and the others that come after this statement, it is no surprise that God would interject this passage.

"The just shall live by his faith."

God says in the middle of all the doom and gloom to embrace faith and live by it.

"Blessed are they which mourn for they shall be comforted" doesn't mean that God swoops down to save us from our troubles, but that he comes down to defend us as we go through it.
Just like in Psalm 84, "Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;...who passing through the valley of Baca ("Weeping") maketh it a well..."
See? Blessed men go through the valley of weeping while rejoicing.

That's "the just shall live by faith;" that's Habakkuk.