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On the Hebrew text. The Hebrew follows the Masoretic Text in the Leningrad tradition, as represented by standard diplomatic editions in their main wording; distinctively copyrighted critical apparatus is not reproduced. Versification follows the MT.

The Book of Habakkuk (MT) — Interlinear Summary

A consolidated companion to the Masoretic-Text Habakkuk data set: each chapter rendered as a six-tier Hebrew reverse-interlinear (Hebrew · gloss · parsing · syntax · semantic force · lexical note), with per-verse discourse analysis and a chapter argument-outline.

This document gathers, for each annotated chapter, the theme, the argument outline, and the textual / exegetical note (the text_note of each file, with the shared critical-text preface removed since it is stated once above). The prophet's complaint, the righteous by faith, and the hymn of trust. The Hebrew follows the Masoretic Text in the Leningrad tradition (Westminster Leningrad Codex / OSHB); distinctively copyrighted apparatus is not reproduced, and Hebrew (MT) versification is used throughout.

Scope. 3 chapters · 56 verses · 672 annotated words.

Habakkuk

Habakkuk 1 — חבקוק 1

Theme. Habakkuk 1 (17 verses in the MT) opens: The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. The middle of the chapter continues: They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. It closes: Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

Outline.

Textual note. Habakkuk 1 comprises 17 verses in MT order. Movement I (vv. 1-4) — The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. O YHWH, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! cry out to you violence, and you will not save! Why dost you shew me iniquity, and cause to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence before me: and there are raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth:. Movement II (vv. 5-8) — Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for w. Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for will work a work in your days, you will not believe, though it be told . For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces not theirs. They terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity. Movement III (vv. 9-12) — They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up the east wind. They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. Then shall mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, this his power to his. Movement IV (vv. 13-16) — of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: where. of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest you upon them that deal treacherously, holdest your tongue when the wicked devoureth more righteous than he? And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and. Movement V (vv. 17) — Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? Where English printed Bibles divide verses differently, this annotation follows MT versification throughout.

Habakkuk 2 — חבקוק 2

Theme. Habakkuk 2 (20 verses in the MT) opens: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. The middle of the chapter continues: For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. It closes: But YHWH in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Outline.

Textual note. Habakkuk 2 comprises 20 verses in MT order. Movement I (vv. 1-4) — I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to. I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And YHWH answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry,. Movement II (vv. 5-8) — Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, a proud man, neither keepeth. Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and heapeth to him all people: Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth not his! how. Movement III (vv. 9-12) — Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned your soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. Woe to him that buildeth a town. Movement IV (vv. 13-16) — Behold, not of YHWH of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fi. Behold, not of YHWH of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of YHWH, as the waters cover the sea. Woe to him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest your bottle to , and makest drunken also, that you mayest look on their. Movement V (vv. 17-20) — For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, ma. For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb. Where English printed Bibles divide verses differently, this annotation follows MT versification throughout.

Habakkuk 3 — חבקוק 3

Theme. Habakkuk 3 (19 verses in the MT) opens: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. The middle of the chapter continues: The mountains saw you, they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, lifted up his hands on high. It closes: YHWH God my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' , and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Outline.

Textual note. Habakkuk 3 comprises 19 verses in MT order. Movement I (vv. 1-4) — A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. O YHWH, I have heard your speech, was afraid: O YHWH, revive your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And brightness. Movement II (vv. 5-8) — Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways everlasting. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Was YHWH displeased. Movement III (vv. 9-12) — Your bow was made quite naked, to the oaths of the tribes, word. Your bow was made quite naked, to the oaths of the tribes, word. Selah. You didst cleave the earth with rivers. The mountains saw you, they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, lifted up his hands on high. The sun moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of your arrows they went, at the shining of your. Movement IV (vv. 13-16) — You wentest forth for the salvation of your people, for salvation with y. You wentest forth for the salvation of your people, for salvation with your anointed; you woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation to the neck. Selah. You didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing as to devour the poor secretly. You didst. Movement V (vv. 17-19) — Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither fruit in the vines; the. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither fruit in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in YHWH, I will joy in the God of my salvation. YHWH God my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' , and he will make me. Where English printed Bibles divide verses differently, this annotation follows MT versification throughout.