Judah
1:12 Marked them for judgement
1:15 The enemy brings all
2:1 Stand at my watch-post
2:2 Write the vision
2:9 Alas - get evil gain
2:12 Alas - build by bloodshed
2:15 Alas - make neighbors drink
Alas upon Sin
2:6 Alas - you who heaps
3:19b With stringed instruments
Habakkuk's Prayer
People
3:16 I tremble within
3:17 Lord is my strength
God's deliverance of His
2:18 Alas - say to wood
2:20 Lord in holy temple
3:1 A prayer
3:2 Heard of your renown
Habakkuk's questions and God's answers
1:5 Rousing the Chaldeans
Chaldeans sent to punish
1:1 Oracle Habakkuk saw
1:2 How long cry?
Who wrote the book?
Habakkuk
When written/compiled?
Somewhere between 626 606 BC
To whom (OR/OH)?
The people of Judah
Main Idea?
Faith despite difficulties.
Habakkuk q'st God's justice God respond - j'ment will come
& trust him
Why spoken?
To show that j'ment is coming
- by Babylonians - by God's
justice.
Why written?
Need to trust him & have
faith in him
Contemporary Prophet
Nahum and Jeremiah