--- title: "Habakkuk 3 - Study King James Bible with barnes notes on the whole bible" description: "Read Habakkuk 3 with barnes notes on the whole bible commentary. 1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. 2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years," image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/barnes-notes-on-the-whole-bible/habakkuk/3" --- [ Read](/kjv/habakkuk/3)[ Commentary](/study/habakkuk/3)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/habakkuk/3) Audio 1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.* 2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, *and* was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.** 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.* 4 And *his* brightness was as the light; he had horns *coming* out of his hand: and there *was* the hiding of his power.* 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.* 6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways *are* everlasting. 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: *and* the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.** 8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? *was* thine anger against the rivers? *was* thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses *and* thy chariots of salvation?* 9 Thy bow was made quite naked, *according* to the oaths of the tribes, *even thy* word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.* 10 The mountains saw thee, *and* they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, *and* lifted up his hands on high. 11 The sun *and* moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, *and* at the shining of thy glittering spear.* 12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, *even* for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.* 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing *was* as to devour the poor secretly.* 15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, *through* the heap of great waters.* 16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.* 17 ¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither *shall* fruit *be* in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and *there shall be* no herd in the stalls:* 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God *is* my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ *feet*, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.** [Habakkuk 2](/study/habakkuk/2) [Zephaniah 1](/study/zephaniah/1) ## Commentary To verse 1 **A prayer of Habakkuk -**o. The “prayer” of the prophet, in the strictest sense of the word, is contained in the words of [Habakkuk 3:2](/kjv/habakkuk/3/2). The rest is, in its form, praise and thanksgiving, chiefly for God’s past mercies in the deliverance from Egypt and the entering into the promised land. But thanksgiving is an essential part of prayer, and Hannah is said to have “prayed,” whereas the hymn which followed is throughout one thanksgiving . In that also these former deliverances were images of things to come, of every deliverance afterward, and, especially, of that complete divine deliverance which our Lord Jesus Christ performed for us from the power of Satan [1 Corinthians 10:11](/kjv/1-corinthians/10/11), the whole is one prayer: “Do, O Lord, as Thou hast done of old; forsake not Thine own works. Such were Thy deeds once; fulfill them now, all which they shadowed forth.” It is then a prayer for the manifestation of God’s power, and therewith the destruction of His enemies, thenceforth to the Day of Judgment. Cyril: “Having completed the discourse about Babylon, and having fore-announced most clearly, that those who destroyed the holy city and carried Israel captive shall be severely punished, he passes suitably to the mystery of Christ, and from the redemption which took place partially in one nation, he carries on the discourse to that universal redemption, whereby the remnant of Israel, and no less the whole world has been saved.” **Upon Shigionoth -**The title, “Shiggaion,” occurs only once besides [Psalms 7:0](/kjv/psalms/7/0). Upon, in the titles of the Psalms, is used with the instrument , the melody , or the first words of the hymn, whose melody has been adopted The two first are mentioned by a Jewish Commentator (Tanchum) with others, “in his delight,” or “his errors,” in the sense, that God will forgive them. This, which the versions and Jewish commentators mostly adopt, would be a good sense, but is hardly consistent with the Hebrew usage. “Shiggaion of David,” as a title of a Psalm, must necessarily describe the Psalm itself, as “Mismor of David,” “Michtam of David,” “Tephillah of David,” “Maschil of David.” But “Shiggaion,” as a “great error,” is not a title: nor does it suit the character of the Psalm, which relates to calumny not to error. It probably, then, means a psalm with music expressive of strong emotion, “erratic” or “dithyrambic.” Habakkuk’s title, on Shigionoth (plural) then would mean upon, or (as we should say,) “set to” music of psalms of this sort The number “three” remarkably predominates in this psalm ([Habakkuk 3:6](/kjv/habakkuk/3/6) has 15 words, in five combinations of three words; [Habakkuk 3:3](/kjv/habakkuk/3/3), [Habakkuk 3:10](/kjv/habakkuk/3/10) have 12 words, in four 3’s: [Habakkuk 3:4](/kjv/habakkuk/3/4), [Habakkuk 3:9](/kjv/habakkuk/3/9), [Habakkuk 3:19](/kjv/habakkuk/3/19) have 9 words in three 3’s: [Habakkuk 3:5](/kjv/habakkuk/3/5), [Habakkuk 3:12](/kjv/habakkuk/3/12), [Habakkuk 3:15](/kjv/habakkuk/3/15), [Habakkuk 3:18](/kjv/habakkuk/3/18) have 6 words in two 3’s: [Habakkuk 3:17](/kjv/habakkuk/3/17) is divided into 4-3-3-4-3-3; [Habakkuk 3:8](/kjv/habakkuk/3/8) is 3-3-3-3-2; [Habakkuk 3:11](/kjv/habakkuk/3/11) is 4-3-3; [Habakkuk 3:16](/kjv/habakkuk/3/16) is 3-3-3-2-2-2-3. This forces itself on every reader. Delitzsch quotes the Meor. 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