Matthew Poole Commentary - Habakkuk 3:16 - 3:16

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Habakkuk 3:16 - 3:16


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When I heard, what dreadful desolations God threatened against Israel, Hab_1:5-11, for of those he now speaketh and meditateth, having finished his elegant description of God’s wonderful works of mercy toward Israel of old, and left them as a foundation of comfort and hope.



My belly, or heart, or bowels, or inward parts, Pro_20:27, trembled; another effect and sign of surprising fears and astonishment.



At the voice; at the mere report. Rottenness entered into my bones; a consumption and decay of all my strength; a languishing of my spirits, and a declining of my rigour: a very usual effect of great fears.



I trembled in myself; I was all shaken, as with an earthquake, no part was free or unshaken. That I might rest in the day of trouble; these fears awakened my remembrance of that God, and those wonders which I have recounted; these fears have occasioned my search into this mystery of Providence, that, understanding it I might, as I do, betake myself to God, and his covenanted mercies, that I may rest in him, who will make it go well with the righteous, even with those righteous who shall live to see and feel the troubles of those days.



When he cometh up; the king of Babylon, with all his bitter and cruel nations, bent on violence and rapine.



Unto the people; against the Jews, my people, saith the prophet.



He will invade them with mighty force, and cut in pieces, make most bloody work among them.



With his troops; with numerous armies, and spoil in troops, where what one leaves another will take; where none escape the fury of some or other in the troops: see this accomplished 2Ki 25.