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.
A Hymn of Faith
Nor fruit be on the vines;
Though the labor of the olive may fail,
And the fields yield no food;
Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
And there be no herd in the stalls—
He will make my feet like adeer’s feet,
And He will make me bwalk on my high hills. To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments.
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Articles, Bible studies, and sermons that contain Habakkuk 3:17:
Habakkuk 3:17-18
Habakkuk is saying it does not matter what life is hurling at me at the moment. It may be the worst of times when we cannot grow a thing and our animals keep dying and just nothing good is happening.
"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord." He is saying, "I will thank God for His being with me, for helping me, for blessing me. It doesn't matter what my state is. This is God, and He's been with me. He's been taking me along the road that He wants me to go on, and if He wants me to go on this road that's all rutted and washed out and makes me wish I had changed my shock absorbers, then that's good, and I will rejoice in what He has done for me." That is the tone of Psalm 18.
Habakkuk 3:1-19
The prophet struggled throughout the book to make sense of the crazy life around him and why God would allow things to go on the way they were. Yet finally, at the end of the book, with an eye toward God's perfect sovereignty, Habakkuk ends with these words of absolute faith.
The Lord is my chayil. He will make my feet like deer's feet, and He will make me to walk in my high hills. The virtuous wife's strength is from God to be used in learning to live as He lives forever.
Sermons
Habakkuk: A Prophet of Faith (Part One)
Habakkuk: A Prophet of Faith (Part One)
Habakkuk: A Prophet of Faith (Part Four)
Habakkuk: A Prophet of Faith (Part Four)
Habakkuk: A Prophet of Faith (Part Four)
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