Habakkuk 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

Habakkuk 1:5 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 13:40-41
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; …
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Jeremiah 5:12-13
They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: …
Jeremiah 25:14-29
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

We have here an answer to the prophet’s complaint, giving him assurance that, though God bore long, he would not bear always with this provoking people; for the day of vengeance was in his heart, and he must tell them so, that they might by repentance and reformation turn away the judgment they were threatened with. I. The preamble to the sentence is very awful (Hab. 1:5): Behold, you among the he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Behold ... marvellously ... a work--(Compare Is 29:14). Quoted by Paul (Ac 13:41). among the heathen--In Ac 13:41, “ye despisers,” from the Septuagint. So the Syriac and Arabic versions; perhaps from a different Hebrew reading. In the English Version reading of Habakkuk, God, in reply to the prophet’s expostulation, addresses the Jews as about to be punished, “Behold ye among the heathen (with…