The Psalm of Habakkuk

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Excerpt from The Psalm of Habakkuk: A Revised Translation, With Exegetical and Critical, Notes on the Hebrew and Greek Texts A certain amount of definiteness of view as to the date when Habakkuk uttered his prophecy is essential to the right understanding of his utterance. The means for coming to a conclusion are, it is true, scanty: external objective evidence is altogether wanting, but a reasonable clue is given by the prophet himself. It is necessary to refer, however briefly, to this evidence, inasmuch as the views to be taken of the prophets standpoint, and especially in the poem to which the whole prophecy works up, will hinge largely on the question of the author's date. The prophecy, taken as a whole, brings before us the threat of the Chaldæan invasion, the horrors that follow in its train, the overweening arrogance of the invader, his utter inability to see that he is in God's hands but the rod of His anger, and his impious glorifying of his own power, the "axe boasting itself against him that heweth with it." Through and beyond this thunder cloud, itself yet future, the prophet, with vision which the divine insight has rendered keen, looks on, patiently and undoubtingly, to the day when the Chaldæan host itself, its work done, falls beneath a mightier foe. With these two feelings then filling his heart - with the knowledge that on His people Gods wrath is to be poured out, that a race mighty and pitiless is to work His will upon them, but with the fullest belief that beyond the storm of trouble, nay, amid it, God's purpose of mercy fully held, - the Prophet breaks out in this marvellous Psalm, in which the twofold thoughts of the preceding chapters are wrought together, two ideas running connected throughout, till, in the jubilant strain at the end, all is forgotten but the full out-pouring of God's love for His people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.