For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
My lips quivered at the voice;
Rottenness entered my bones;
And I trembled in myself,
That I might rest in the day of trouble.
When he comes up to the people,
He will invade them with his troops.
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Habakkuk 3:14
strike . . . with his staves—with the "wicked" (Habakkuk 3:13) foe's own sword (MAURER translates, "spears") (Judges 7:22).
head of his villages—Not only kings were overthrown by God's hand, but His vengeance passed through the foe's villages and dependencies. A just retribution, as the foe had made "the inhabitants of Israel's villages to cease" (Judges 5:7). GROTIUS translates, "of his warriors"; GESENIUS, "the chief of his captains."
to scatter me—Israel, with whom Habakkuk identifies himself (compare Habakkuk 1:12).
rejoicing . . . to devour the poor secretly—"The poor" means the Israelites, for whom in their helpless state the foe lurks in his lair, like a wild beast, to pounce on and devour (Psalms 10:9; Psalms 17:12).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Habakkuk 3:14:
Job 18:11
Psalms 14:4-6
Psalms 77:14-20
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