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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. …
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. …
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We are told no more in the title of this book (which we have, Hab. 1:1) than that the penman was a prophet , a man divinely inspired and commissioned, which is enough (if that be so, we need not ask concerning his tribe or family, or the place of his birth), and that the book itself is the burden which he saw ; he was as sure of the truth of it as if he had seen it with his bodily eyes already acc…
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