Context and Key Themes Habakkuk 3 is the prophet’s prayer — and it is unlike anything else in the prophetic books. Structured as a psalm complete with musical notations, it opens with a request for God to act in the present as he has acted in history, moves through a breathtaking vision of divine power…
Context and Key Themes Habakkuk 2 is God’s answer to the second complaint — and it is one of the most theologically dense chapters in all the minor prophets. Habakkuk stations himself like a watchman to wait for the reply. God tells him to write the vision plainly, because it is for an appointed time…
Context and Key Themes Habakkuk 1 is one of the most honest openings in all of scripture. The prophet does not begin with a vision, a divine commission, or a word of the Lord. He begins with a complaint. He has been crying out about the violence and injustice around him and God has apparently…