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Habakkuk
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The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw. See also: Nahum 1:1Isaiah 22:1LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save? See also: Psalms 22:1-2Psalms 13:1-2Lamentations 3:8Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. See also: Psalms 55:9-11Jeremiah 20:8Micah 7:1-4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted. See also: Psalms 94:20-21Job 21:7Isaiah 1:21-23“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe though it is told you. See also: Acts 13:40-41Isaiah 29:14Lamentations 4:12For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. See also: 2 Kings 24:2Jeremiah 5:152 Chronicles 36:6They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. See also: Jeremiah 39:5-9Jeremiah 52:9-11Isaiah 18:7Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour. See also: Jeremiah 4:13Zephaniah 3:3Ezekiel 17:3All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand. See also: Jeremiah 25:9Romans 9:27Hosea 13:15Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it. See also: 2 Chronicles 36:6Jeremiah 32:24Isaiah 14:16Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.” See also: Daniel 5:20Daniel 5:3-4Jeremiah 4:11-12Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. See also: Deuteronomy 32:4Psalms 90:2Deuteronomy 33:27You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, See also: Psalms 5:4-5Psalms 34:15-16Jeremiah 12:1-2and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them? He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. See also: Jeremiah 16:16Amos 4:2Psalms 10:9Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good. See also: Daniel 4:30Habakkuk 1:11Deuteronomy 8:17Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy? See also: Isaiah 14:16-17Habakkuk 2:5-8Isaiah 14:6
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the book
THE PROPHECY OF HABACUC.
PREFACE.
Habacuc was a native of Bezocher, and prophesied in Juda some time before the invasion of the Chaldeans, which he foretold. He lived to see this prophecy fulfilled, and for many years after, according to the general opinion, which supposes him to be the same that was brought by the angel to Daniel, in Babylon. Dan. xvi. Ch. --- He might very well live to see the captives return, as only sixty-six years elapsed from the first of Joakim, when he began to prophesy, till that event. He retired at the approach of the Chaldees, and afterwards employed himself in agricultural pursuits. C. --- The sins of Juda, the coming of the Chaldees, and the relaxation of the captivity are specified; and in the canticle, the appearance of Christ, the last judgment and eternity, (W.) are mentioned in the most sublime style. H.
Habakkuk 1:1
Ver. 1. Burden. Such prophecies more especially are called burdens, as threaten grievous evils and punishments. Ch. --- He says not against whom, because the menace is directed to persecutors in general. W.
↑ 1Habakkuk 1:2
Ver. 2. Save. Some think that he expresses the sentiments of the weak, like David, (Ps. lxxii. 2.) or what he had formerly entertained. The language of the prophets is very bold. Ex. xxxii. 32.
Job iii. 3. Jer. xx. 14. Jon. iv. 8. C.
↑ 2Habakkuk 1:3
Ver. 3. Opposition. Sept. "the judge receives" bribes. H. --- Such was the state of Juda after Josias. Jer. xxi. 12.
↑ 3Habakkuk 1:5
Ver. 5. Among. Sept. ye despisers. S. Paul nearly agrees with this version. Acts xiii. 41. The copies vary, as the Heb. has done. C. --- The apostle gives the mystical sense; the literal is very obscure. W. --- God answers the prophet's complaints, and shews that the Chaldees shall punish the guilty, and afterwards be themselves chastised.
↑ 5Habakkuk 1:6
Ver. 6. Chaldeans. Nabuchodonosor was the first of this nation who attacked Joakim, and having conquered all as far as the Nile, returned to succeed Nabopolassar. He afterwards came upon Jechonias and Sedecias, &c. The prophet might have all this in view, particularly the first invasion. C. --- Bitter; warlike, as all the Gr. historians remark. S. Jer. --- The Chaldees were not yet arrived at such greatness, and of course this is not the Habacuc specified Dan.
xiv. W. --- Yet the same prophet might foresee it. H.
↑ 6Habakkuk 1:7
Ver. 7. Proceed. They admit no authority but their own. C. --- This pride will prove their ruin.
H.
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Ver. 8. Leopards: the swiftest quadrupeds. C. --- The horses near the Euphrates were swift and warlike. Oppian. --- Swifter. Heb. "sharper" (H.) in seeing, even when there is no moon. Elian x.
26. --- Evening. Sept. "Arabian." H. --- It may denote the hyena of that country, which is most terrible. Guevar.
↑ 8Habakkuk 1:9
Ver. 9. Burning. Heb. also, "eastern," which is hot, and raises the sand of Arabia so as to be very detrimental. C. --- Out of 2,000 travellers from Mecca to Aleppo, only twenty-nine escaped such a storm, or kamsin, in that vast desert, Aug. 23, 1813. Rock. 312. H. --- Sand, from various countries. Is. xx. 4. Beros.
cited c. Ap. i.
↑ 9Habakkuk 1:10
Ver. 10. Prince, or "it," the nation. v. 10. Heb. "They," &c. --- Laughingstock, ( ridicule.) Nabuchodonosor raised or deposed princes as in jest. H. ---
Sennacherib's officers were or had been kings. Is. x. 8. --- Mount. Thus cities were chiefly taken. Ezec. iv. 1. C.
↑ 10Habakkuk 1:11
Ver. 11. Spirit; viz. the spirit of the king of Babylon. It alludes to the judgment of God upon Nabuchodonosor, recorded Dan. iv. and to the speedy fall of the Chaldean empire. Ch. --- It shall yield to the Medes, &c. after conquering the Assyrians. W. --- Fall. Heb. "sin." Sept. "obtain pardon." --- God: "idol." Chal.
"This is the strength of my God." Sept. God forced the proud king to confess that his great exploits were not to be attributed to himself or to idols. H.
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Ver. 12. Die? We hope that this scourge will not entirely ruin us. --- Correction, like Pharao.
Ex. ix. 16.
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Ver. 13. Look, with approbation (C.) or connivance.
↑ 13Habakkuk 1:14
Ver. 14. Ruler. People are subdued by Nabuchodouosor. H. --- They make little resistance. C.
↑ 14Habakkuk 1:16
Ver. 16. Drag, adoring his own arms and prowess, (Sanct.) like Mezentius and Capaneus: Dextra mihi Deus, (Æn. x.)
Te voco, te solum, superum contemptor, adoro. Stat. x.
--- Guevare thinks fishes were adored, as they were among the Syrians.
Nabuchodonosor attributed all to his own genius, or to Bel, whose statue he set up. Dan. iii. C. --- Victorious nations thus honour themselves and not God.
↑ 16Habakkuk 1:17
Ver. 17. Nations, of every country. W. --- Few have been so much addicted to war as Nabuchodonosor. C.
↑ 17License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses