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.
Habakkuk 1:3 —
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Commentary
Matthew Henry
(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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