Habakkuk

No. 477 Habakkuk 2:6-11
Habakkuk has been crying out to God about the violence of a rising empire that plunders nations and answers to no one. And God gives him a taunt-song, a series of woes to be sung against the oppressor, and two...
No. 901 Habakkuk 3:1-19
Habakkuk has spent two chapters arguing with God about why the wicked prosper and why God would use the brutal Babylonians to punish Judah. This third chapter is his response, a prayer set to music. He recalls...
No. 1508 Habakkuk 2:1-5
The prophet Habakkuk, troubled by the injustice he sees, takes his stand at his watchpost to wait for God's answer. And God answers: write the vision, make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it....
No. 2463 Habakkuk 1:1-11
Habakkuk opens not with a sermon but a complaint aimed straight at God. How long, LORD, will I cry for help and you not listen? Violence is everywhere, the law is paralyzed, justice never prevails, and God...
No. 3070 Habakkuk 2:12-20
Habakkuk pronounces woes on those who build a city by bloodshed and on idol-makers who trust in lifeless wood and stone. But in the midst of the woes shines a promise: the earth will be filled with the...
No. 3307 Habakkuk 1:12-17
Habakkuk dares to argue with God. He affirms who God is, everlasting, holy, of purer eyes than to look on evil, and then presses the very thing that troubles him: why then do you tolerate the treacherous, and...