Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Verse Habakkuk 1:14. _MAKEST MEN AS THE FISHES OF THE SEA_] Easilyare we taken and destroyed. We have no _leader_ to guide us, and no_power_ to defend ourselves. Nebuchadnezzar is here represented...
Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
AND MAKEST MEN AS THE FISHES OF THE SEA - mute, helpless, in a stormy,restless element, no cry heard, but themselves swept away in shoals,with no power to resist.AS THE CREEPING THINGS - whether o...
Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONSCHAPTER 1The Judgment of Judah Through the Chaldeans Announced_ 1. The prophet's cry to Jehovah (Habakkuk 1:1) _2. The answer (Habakkuk 1:5)3. The prophet's plea (H
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible
REMONSTRANCE OVER THE INHUMANITY OF THE CHALDEANS. The execution ofDivine judgment raises fresh questions: Why should the Holy One, whoseeyes are too pure to look on evil, appoint as minister of jus...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
Charles Box Commentaries
_HABAKKUK REPLIED TO GOD -- HABAKKUK 1:12-14:_ Habakkuk addressed Godon behalf of the people. In this appeal to God he contrasted God'spower and purity with what God was doing with the destructive w...
co*ke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
AND MAKEST MEN, &C.— By delivering them to Nebuchadnezzar, who takesthem in his net as a fisherman takes fishes. These creatures sufferthemselves to be taken without resistance, because they have no...
College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
CHAPTER XVIITHE SECOND QUESTIONHabakkuk 1:12-17RV. Art thou not from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? weshall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgement; andthou, O Roc...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, thathave no ruler over them?AND MAKEST MEN AS THE FISH - i:e., and so, by suffering oppressors togo unpunished, "thou makest men...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
THE PROPHET'S BURDEN. THE ANSWER OF JEHOVAH1. Burden] RM 'oracle': see on Isaiah 13:1.2, 3. HOW LONG?.. WHY?] Even a prophet (Habakkuk 1:1) can ask suchquestions. He never denies the existence of...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
AND MAKEST] probably this should be 'and makes.' It is, as Habakkuk1:15 show, the Chaldean who makes men like fish, sweeping them intohis net....
EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIAHabakkuk_GORDON CHURCHYARD_ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIAAssyria was a country to the north and east of Israel. For manyyears, it ruled most of the world. Nahum, Habakkuk...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
(12-17) Though sore perplexed, Habakkuk feels sure that the God whomthis swaggering conqueror has insulted will at last vindicate Himself....
ETCBC data on Hebrew bible
וַ תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֖ם כִּ דְגֵ֣י הַיָּ֑ם
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)
Habakkuk 1:1Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 (or 8)Yet it is the first piece which raises the most difficult questions.All admit that it is to be dated somewhere along the line ofJeremiah's long career...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary
THE APPARENT PROSPERITY OF THE WICKEDHabakkuk 1:1-17Habakkuk probably lived toward the beginning of the reign ofJehoiakim, when the Chaldeans were preparing to invade the land.Jerusalem was fille...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
In this first division of the Book we have the prophet's statement ofthe problems which vexed his soul. The first was the apparentindifference of Jehovah both to his prayer and to the condition ofp...
Geneva Study Bible Commentary
And makest men as the (l) fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals,[that have] no ruler over them?(l) So that the great devours the small, and the Chaldeans destroy allthe world....
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
_Ruler. People are subdued by Nabuchodouosor. (Haydock) --- They makelittle resistance. (Calmet)_...
Hawker's Poor man's commentary
This is a most blessed prayer, and if I mistake not, it takes into itsbosom all the great leading points of redemption. The Prophet by thisfigure of speech, of seemingly as king, the Lord concerning...
Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly
Lectures on the Minor Prophets.W. Kelly.There is no prophetic delivery among the twelve lesser books morepeculiar and characteristic than that of Habakkuk. It has no longerthe occupation with the...
John Calvin's Bible Commentary
He goes on, as it has been said, in his complaint; and by a comparisonhe shows that the judgement would be such as though God turned awayfrom men, so as not to check the violence of the wicked, nor...
John Darby's Synopsis
First of all, the prophet complains that the evil which exists amongthe people is insupportable. This is the natural effect of the workingof the Spirit of God in a heart jealous for His glory and de...
John Trapp Complete Commentary
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [thathave] no ruler over them?Ver. 14. _And makest men as the fishes of the sea_] That are easilydrawn out with hook or net. So dot...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
_Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil_ Thou art of too just andpure a nature to approve of wickedness: it must ever be an abominationto thee. _Thou canst not look upon iniquity_ Except with in...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
The Prophet's Prayer...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
and makest men as the fishes of the sea, helpless in the face of thefisherman's net, AS THE CREEPING THINGS THAT HAVE NO RULER OVER THEM,one who might act as their protector and defender in times of...
Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)
CREEPING:Or, moving...
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible
12-17 However matters may be, yet God is the Lord our God, our HolyOne. We are an offending people, he is an offended God, yet we willnot entertain hard thoughts of him, or of his service. It is gr...
Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible
MAKEST; not infusing cruel, ravenous, and unsatiable appetites, butpermitting them to act according to such appetite which was already inthem. MEN; who should be just to all, and wrong none, who wer...
Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes
Habakkuk 1:14 make H6213 (H8799) men H120 fish H1709 sea H3220 thingsH7431 ruler H4910 (H8802)cre
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
HABBAKUK IS EVEN MORE PUT OUT. HOW CAN GOD USE SUCH INSTRUMENTS TOCHASTEN HIS PEOPLE? (HABAKKUK 1:12).Habakkuk 1:12‘Are you not from everlasting, O YHWH?My God, my Holy One, We will not die.O...
Summarized Bible Commentary
CONTENTS: Habakkuk's prayer concerning evil in dispersed Israel. God'svoice to Israel and Habakkuk's testimony to God.CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk.CONCLUSION: We must not think it strange if God som...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Zechariah 1:1. _The burden,_ the prophecy, _which Habakkuk the prophetsaw._ Here he opens his commission, as divinely inspired with vision,and invested with a charge which he must deliver. God laid...
The Biblical Illustrator
_And makest men as the fishes of the sea _RAPACIOUS SELFISHNESS IN POWERIllustrated in Nebuchadnezzar.Selfishness is the root and essence of sin. All unregenerate men aretherefore more or less...
The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:12 Second Cycle. This passage asks anage-old question: Why does evil seem to go unpunished? God’s answeris that all who are wicked will eventually be punished; meanwhile,...
The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:14 Habakkuk’s charge against God isthat he allows mankind to act like lower creatures (FISH and CRAWLINGTHINGS), with no rulers or judges. Thus, wickedness goes unchecked...
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary
CRITICAL NOTES.]Habakkuk 1:11. Then] Elated by victory. CHANGE] Lit. the wind passesby; the storm of violence like the wind sweeps over the land. Somerefer it to the Chaldee nation, who change in...
The Pulpit Commentaries
EXPOSITIONVERSE 1:1-2:20PART I. JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL, IN THE FORM OF A COLLOQUY BETWEEN THEPROPHET AND GOD....
Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith
Shall we turn at this time to the book of Habakkuk.Very little is known concerning the personal background of Habakkuk.Very little, nothing is known. We don't know really anything about hisbackgrou...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Proverbs 6:7...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes
And makest — Not infusing cruel appetites, but permitting them toact according to such appetite which was already in them. As thefishes — Of which the greater greedily devour the smaller. Creepingt...
