Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
They are terrible - 'âyôm occurs here only and Song of Songs 6:4, Song of Songs 6:10, compared with the "bannered host," but the root is common in 'ēymâh .
And dreadful - He describes them, first in themselves, then in act. They are terrible, and strike fear through their very being, their known character, before they put it forth in act.
Their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. - Judgment had gone forth in God' s people wrested Habakkuk 1:4; now shall it go forth against them at the mere will of their master, who shall own no other rule or Lord or source of his power. His own will shall be his only law for himself and others. His elevation is too is, in his own thought, from himself. He is self-sufficing; he holds from no other, neither from God nor man. His "dignity" is self-sustained; His "judgment" is irresponsible, as if there were none Ecclesiastes 5:8 higher than he. He has, like all great world-powers, a real dignity and majesty. He infuses awe. The dignity is real but faulty, as being held independently of God. This is a character of antichrist Daniel 11:36; II Thessalonians 2:4, a lawless insolence, a lifting up of himself.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Habakkuk 1:7:
2 Kings 20:14
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