Habakkuk 1:5 BSB — MannaFest

Habakkuk 1:5

“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.

BSB

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ASV

Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

KJV

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Habakkuk (420)

(Verse 5.) Look among the nations and see, be astonished and astounded; for a work is being done in your days that you would not believe if you were told. LXX: Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if someone tells you. Symmachus, in response to what we have said: "a work is being done in your days", interpreted it as "a work will be done in your days". The rest is similar.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Behold ye among the heathen - The whole tone of the words suddenly changes. The Jews flattered themselves that, being the people of God, He would not fulfill His threats upon them. They had become like the pagan in wickedness; God bids them look out among them for the instrument of His displeasure. It was an aggravation of their punishment, that God, who had once chosen them, would now choose these whom He had not chosen, to chasten them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Israelite unbelievers would not credit the prophecy as to the fearfulness of the destruction to be wrought by the Chaldeans, nor afterwards the deliverance promised from that nation. So analogously, in Paul's day, the Jews would not credit the judgment coming on them by the Romans, nor the salvation proclaimed through Jesus.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רְא֤וּ	re.'U	see	H7200 →
בַגּוֹיִם֙	va.go.Yim	among the nations	H1471 →
וְֽהַבִּ֔יטוּ	ve.ha.Bi.tu	and look	H5027 →
וְהִֽתַּמְּה֖וּ	ve.hit.ta.me.Hu	and be astounded	H8539 →
תְּמָ֑הוּ	te.Ma.hu	be astonished	H8539 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
פֹ֙עַל֙	fo.'al	a deed	H6467 →
פֹּעֵ֣ל	po.'El	[I am] about to do	H6466 →
בִּֽימֵיכֶ֔ם	bi.mei.Khem	in days your	H3117 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	[which] not	H3808 →
תַאֲמִ֖ינוּ	ta.'a.Mi.nu	you will believe	H539 →
כִּ֥י	ki	if	H3588 →
יְסֻפָּֽר׃	ye.su.Par	it will be recounted	H5608 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 1:19–24
  For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
- Isaiah 28:21
  For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing…
- Jeremiah 49:7
  Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
- John 9:39–41
  Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
- Obadiah 1:8
  In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
Through
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
leads to
- Psalms 48:4–6
  For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.
- Deuteronomy 29:24–28
  So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
- Jeremiah 21:13
  Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

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Where the connections lead

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About Habakkuk