Habakkuk

Treated in 76 passages across the library.

A dialogue between the prophet Habakkuk and God. He asks why evil goes unpunished in Judah, and then why God would use the cruel Babylonians to judge it. The answer comes that "the just shall live by his faith," words that Paul quotes and that set Luther's conscience free. The book ends with a prayer of trust: "yet I will rejoice in the Lord."

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  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 5 — The Knowledge of God Conspicuous in the Creation, and Continual Government of the World cites Hab. 2:18

    …no Deity anywhere but in Mount Zion where the special knowledge of God was professed (Hab. 2:18, 20). Among the Gentiles in the time of Christ, the Samaritans undoubtedly made the…

  2. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Unchangeableness of God cites Hab 3:18

    …and olive-tree failed, God did not fail. ‘I will joy in the God of my salvation.’ Hab 3:18. Flowers in the garden die, but a man’s portion remains; so outward things die and…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Hab 2: 18

    …tongue, invocation of saints and angels, and image-worship. Images are teachers of lies. Hab 2: 18. Wherein do they teach lies? They represent God, who cannot be seen, in a bodily shape.…

  4. Portraits of Courage – David Livingstone · Ochorus Originals

    Nyangwe cites Habakkuk 1:2

    …cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.” — Habakkuk 1:2, ASV Manyema The country west of Lake Tanganyika, which the traders called Manyema, was…

  5. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites Hab. i. 13

    …nor can the sons of men have any other thoughts of him (Rom. i. 18; Isa. xxxiii. 13, 14; Hab. i. 13; Ps. v. 4–6; Eph. ii. 3), — here he is now revealed peculiarly as love, as full of it…

  6. Portraits of Courage – Mary Slessor · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix A: Lessons from the Life of Mary Slessor cites Habakkuk 3:18

    …in His love.” “Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:18, ASV). 15. The Gospel Needs Ordinary Messengers The church at Itu was begun by a former…