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Habakkuk","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF HABACUC\n\nHABACUC was a native of Bezocher, and prophesied in JUDA, some time\nbefore the invasion of the CHALDEANS, which he foretold. He lived to see\nthis prophecy fulfilled, and for many years after, according to the\ngeneral opinion, which supposes him to be the same that was brought by\nthe ANGEL to DANIEL in BABYLON, Dan. 14.\n\n\nHabacuc Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet complains of the wickedness of the people: God reveals to\nhim the vengeance he is going to take of them by the Chaldeans.\n\n1:1. The burden that Habacuc the prophet saw.\n\nBurden... Such prophecies more especially are called burdens, as\nthreaten grievous evils and punishments.\n\n1:2. How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry\nout to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?\n\n1:3. Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and\ninjustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more\npowerful.\n\n1:4. Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to the\nend: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong\njudgment goeth forth.\n\n1:5. Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished:\nfor a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall\nbe told.\n\n1:6. For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift\nnation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling\nplaces that are not their own.\n\n1:7. They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their\njudgment, and their burden proceed.\n\n1:8. Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening\nwolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen\nshall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to\neat.\n\n1:9. They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning wind:\nand they shall gather together captives as the sand.\n\n1:10. And their prince shall triumph over kings, and princes shall be\nhis laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold, and shall\ncast up a mount, and shall take it.\n\n1:11. Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall:\nthis is his strength of his god.\n\nThen shall his spirit, etc... Viz., the spirit of the king of Babylon.\nIt alludes to the judgment of God upon Nabuchodonosor, recorded Dan. 4.,\nand to the speedy fall of the Chaldean empire.\n\n1:12. Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and\nwe shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made\nhim strong for correction.\n\n1:13. Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on\niniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest\nthy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than\nhimself?\n\n1:14. And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the\ncreeping things that have no ruler.\n\n1:15. He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and\ngathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.\n\n1:16. Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice\nto his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat\ndainty.\n\n1:17. For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare\ncontinually to slay the nations.\n\nHabacuc Chapter 2\n\nThe prophet is admonished to wait with faith. The enemies of God's\npeople shall assuredly be punished.\n\n2:1. I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I\nwill watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to him\nthat reproveth me.\n\nWill stand, etc... Waiting to see what the Lord will answer to my\ncomplaint, viz., that the Chaldeans, who are worse than the Jews, and\nwho attribute all their success to their own strength, or to their\nidols, should nevertheless prevail over the people of the Lord. The\nLord's answer is, that the prophet must wait with patience and faith:\nthat all should be set right in due time; and the enemies of God and his\npeople punished according to their deserts.\n\n2:2. And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it\nplain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.\n\n2:3. For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end,\nand shall notlie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely\ncome, and it shall not be slack.\n\n2:4. Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in\nhimself: but the just shall live in his faith.\n\n2:5. And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man\nbe, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like\nhell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will\ngather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all\npeople.\n\nAs wine deceiveth, etc... Viz., by affording only a short passing\npleasure; followed by the evils and disgrace that are the usual\nconsequences of drunkenness; so shall it be with the proud enemies of\nthe people of God; whose success affordeth them only a momentary\npleasure, followed by innumerable and everlasting evils.\n\n2:6. Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark\nspeech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth\ntogether that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself\nwith thick clay?\n\nThick clay... Ill-gotten goods, that, like mire, both burden and defile\nthe soul.\n\n2:7. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee: and they be\nstirred up that shall tear thee, and thou shalt be a spoil to them?\n\n2:8. Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all that shall be left of\nthe people shall spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the\niniquity of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.\n\n2:9. Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his\nhouse, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered\nout of the hand of evil.\n\n2:10. Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many\npeople, and thy soul hath sinned.\n\n2:11. For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and the timber that is\nbetween the joints of the building, shall answer.\n\n2:12. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city\nby iniquity.\n\n2:13. Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall\nlabour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.\n\nAre not these things, etc... That is, shall not these punishments that\nare here recorded, come from the Lord upon him that is guilty of such\ncrimes.-Ibid. The people shall labour, etc... Viz., the enemies of God's\npeople.\n\n2:14. For the earth shall be filled, that men may know the glory of the\nLord, as waters covering the sea.\n\n2:15. Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his\ngall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.\n\n2:16. Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and\nfall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass\nthee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.\n\n2:17. For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, and the ravaging of\nbeasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men, and the iniquity\nof the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein.\n\nThe iniquity of Libanus... That is, the iniquity committed by the\nChaldeans against the temple of God, signified here by the name of\nLibanus.\n\n2:18. What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath\ngraven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath\ntrusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.\n\n2:19. Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise:\ncan it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there\nis no spirit in the bowels thereof.\n\n2:20. But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence\nbefore him.\n\nHabacuc Chapter 3\n\n3:1. A PRAYER OF HABACUC THE PROPHET FOR IGNORANCES.\n\nFor ignorances... That is, for the sins of his people. In the Hebrew, it\nis Sigionoth: which some take to signify a musical instrument, or tune;\nwith which this sublime prayer and canticle was to be sung.\n\n3:2. O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid.  O Lord, thy\nwork, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the\nyears thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember\nmercy.\n\nThy hearing, etc... That is, thy oracles, the great and wonderful things\nthou hast revealed to me; and I was struck with a reverential fear and\nawe.-Ibid. Thy work... The great work of the redemption of man, which\nthou wilt bring to life and light in the midst of the years, when our\ncalamities and miseries shall be at their height.\n\n3:3. God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan:\nHis glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.\n\nGod will come from the south, etc... God himself will come to give us\nhis law, and to conduct us into the true land of promise: as heretofore\nhe came from the South (in the Hebrew Theman) and from mount Pharan to\ngive his law to his people in the desert. See Deut. 33.2.\n\n3:4. His brightness shall be as the light: horns are in his hands: There\nis his strength hid:\n\nHorns, etc... That is, strength and power, which, by a Hebrew phrase,\nare called horns. Or beams of light, which come forth from his hands. Or\nit may allude to the cross, in the horns of which the hands of Christ\nwere fastened, where his strength was hidden, by which he overcame the\nworld, and drove out death and the devil.\n\n3:5. Death shall go before his face.  And the devil shall go forth\nbefore his feet.\n\nDeath shall go before his face, etc... Both death and the devil shall be\nthe executioners of his justice against his enemies: as they were\nheretofore against the Egyptians and Chanaanites.\n\n3:6. He stood and measured the earth.  He beheld, and melted the\nnations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces.  The hills of\nthe world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity.\n\nHe beheld, etc... One look of his eye is enough to melt all the nations,\nand to reduce them to nothing. For all heaven and earth disappear when\nthey come before his light. Apoc. 20.11. Ibid. The ancient mountains,\netc... By the mountains and hills are signified the great ones of the\nworld, that persecute the church, whose power was quickly crushed by the\nAlmighty.\n\n3:7. I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniquity, the curtains of the\nland of Madian shall be troubled.\n\nEthiopia... the land of the Blacks, and Madian, are here taken for the\nenemies of God and his people: who shall perish for their iniquity.\n\n3:8. Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath upon the\nrivers? or thy indignation in the sea?  Who will ride upon thy horses:\nand thy chariots are salvation.\n\nWith the rivers, etc... He alludes to the wonders wrought heretofore by\nthe Lord in favour of his people Israel, when the waters of the rivers,\nviz., of Arnon and Jordan, and of the Red Sea, retired before their\nface: when he came as it were with his horses and chariots to save them\nwhen he took up his bow for their defence, in consequene of the oath he\nhad made to their tribes: when the mountains trembled, and the deep\nstood with its waves raised up in a heap, as with hands lifted up to\nheaven: when the sun and the moon stood still at his command, etc., to\ncomply with his anger, not against the rivers and sea, but against the\nenemies of his people. How much more will he do in favour of his Son:\nand against the enemies of his church?\n\n3:9. Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: according to the oaths which thou\nhast spoken to the tribes.  Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth.\n\n3:10. The mountains saw thee, and were grieved: the great body of waters\npassed away.  The deep put forth its voice: the deep lifted up its\nhands.\n\n3:11. The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light\nof thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.\n\n3:12. In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: in thy wrath\nthou wilt astonish the nations.\n\n3:13. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation\nwith thy Christ.  Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked:\nthou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.\n\nThe head of the house of the wicked... Such was Pharao heretofore: such\nshall Antichrist be hereafter.\n\n3:14. Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, them that\ncame out as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their joy was like that of him\nthat devoureth the poor man in secret.\n\n3:15. Thou madest a way in the sea for thy horses, in the mud of many\nwaters.\n\nThou madest a way in the sea, etc... To deliver thy people from the\nEgyptian bondage: and thou shalt work the like wonders in the spiritual\nway, to rescue the children of the church from their enemies.\n\n3:16. I have heard and my bowels were troubled: my lips trembled at the\nvoice.  Let rottenness enter into my bones, and swarm under me.  That I\nmay rest in the day of tribulation: that I may go up to our people that\nare girded.\n\nI have heard, etc... Viz., the evils that are now coming upon the\nIsraelites for their sins; and that shall come hereafter upon all\nimpenitent sinners; and the foresight that I have of these miseries\nmakes me willing to die, that I may be at rest, before this general\ntribulation comes, in which all good things shall be withdrawn from the\nwicked. Ibid. That I may go up to our people, etc... That I may join the\nhappy company in the bosom of Abraham, that are girded, that is,\nprepared for their journey, by which they shall attend their Lord, when\nhe shall ascend into heaven. To which high and happy place, my Jesus,\nthat is, my Saviour, the great conqueror of death and hell, shall one\nday conduct me rejoicing and singing psalms of praise, ver. 18 and 19.\n\n3:17. For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring\nin the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields\nshall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there\nshall be no herd in the stalls.\n\n3:18. But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will joy in God my Jesus.\n\n3:19. The Lord God is my strength: and he will make my feet like the\nfeet of harts: and he the conqueror will lead me upon my high places\nsinging psalms.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 40: Habacuc: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":2722}