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Habakkuk 1:5 KJV
Habakkuk · chapter 1 · verse 5
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.Habakkuk 1:5 · King James Version
Habakkuk 1:5 in context
3Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
7They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
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Key words (Strong's)
- heathengôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- believeʼâmanproperly, to build up or supportH539 →
- Beholdrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- regardnâbaṭto scanH5027 →
- wondertâmahhto be in consternationH8539 →
- workpâʻalto do or make , especially to practiseH6466 →
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We have here an answer to the prophet's complaint, giving him assurance that, though God bore long, he would not bear always with this provoking people; for the day of vengeance was in his heart, and he must tell them so, that they might by repentance and reformation turn away the judgment they were threatened with.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-11