Passage Research
Habakkuk 1 — Sermon Preparation
Habakkuk cries out over unpunished violence in Judah; God answers that he is raising up the ferocious Babylonians as his instrument of judgment. Below is a research summary for Habakkuk 1, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 17
- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 18
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Habakkuk 1 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נָבַט | nâbaṭ | H5027 | 4 | scan, look intently at |
| חֵרֶם | chêrem | H2764 | 3 | net, doomed object |
| מִשְׁפָּט | mishpâṭ | H4941 | 4 | verdict, sentence |
| חָמָס | châmâç | H2555 | 3 | violence, wrong |
| מִכְמֶרֶת | mikmereth | H4365 | 2 | net |
| תָּמַהּ | tâmahh | H8539 | 2 | be in consternation |
| גּוֹי | gôwy | H1471 | 3 | nation, a Gentile |
How preachers through history handled this text
18 public-domain excerpts on Habakkuk 1, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“However matters may be, yet God is the Lord our God, our Holy One. We are an offending people, he is an offended God, yet we will not entertain hard thoughts of him, or of his service. It is great comfort that, whatever mischief men design, the Lord designs good, and we are sure that his counsel shall stand. Though wickedness may prosper a while, yet God is holy, and does not approve the wickedness. As he cannot do iniquity himself, so he is of purer eyes than to behold it with any approval. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Habakkuk 1:12–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Chaldea— Hab 1:6
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