To the chief singer. John Trapp Complete Commentary. A prayer of Habakkuk - o. Not only is there nothing between you and the distant object, but through a rarefied atmosphere there is the least possible obstruction. Yet unless your feet ascend the high places it is as though it were not there. "Commentary on Habakkuk 3:19". A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet: The first two chapters of Habakkuk give us the prophet's "question and answer" time with God. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/habakkuk-3.html. It is only when the herd ventures a little down the hill that it is in danger from shots. Amen. That is a possible result of Christian communion, and ought, far more than it is, to be an achieved reality with each of us. Some think that it signifies a melody, others render it beatings (pulsationes) or notes (modos;) and others consider that musical instruments are meant. This chapter records "Habakkuk's song", a poetic psalm "extolling God's triumphs." Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.. Ver. By high places, the prophet seems to mean the fruitful hills of Judaea; at least Moses uses the word in this sense, Deuteronomy 32:13. And until the fulness of time appointed in the counsel of peace arrived, what were all the manifestations in the Old Testament Church, but tokens how ardently thou didst long openly to come and tabernacle in our nature, for the redemption of thy people. God makes a man’s feet like “hinds’ feet”; that is, He makes the heavy, sluggish mortal into a light active being. III. From now on no disaster will be able to touch him. Without any attempt to do more than bring out the deep meaning of the words, I note that the three clauses of our text present three aspects of what our lives and ourselves may steadfastly be if we, too, will rejoice in the God of our salvation. 1. Observe, reader: 1st, We may be strong for our spiritual warfare and work, The Lord God is my strength, the strength of my heart, Psalms 73:26. He will establish me upon the heights, to gain the victory in his canticle." If we would be great or high we must bear in mind they must depend on our own labour. Habakkuk specified the use of stringed instruments to accompany the singing undoubtedly because they set the proper mood. The high places of faith. Our King Alfred translated the Psalter himself into his own Saxon tongue. “Yield yourselves to God.” “If you live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit.” Be spiritually minded. They reject God, His word and live worst than the pagan nations around them. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/rbc/habakkuk-3.html. 1. 19. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. Hail then, thou glorious, gracious, great I AM the visible Jehovah of thy Church and people! God to a man for his strength. “He will make me to walk upon my high places.” One sees the herd on the skyline of the mountain ridge, and at home up there, far above dangers and attack; able to keep their footing on cliff and precipice, and tossing their antlers in the pure air. ‘He sets me upon my high places’; if we will keep ourselves in simple, loving fellowship with God in Christ; and day by day, even when ‘the fig-tree does not blossom, and there is no fruit in the vine,’ will still ‘rejoice in the God of our salvation,’ He will lift us up, and Isaiah’s other clause in the verse which I have quoted will be fulfilled: ‘They shall mount up with wings as eagles.’ Communion with God does not only help us to plod and to travel, but it helps us to soar. Holy souls tremble at God's word, and with awful apprehensions look forward to the wrath ready to be revealed from heaven. Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls, It is possible, because communion with God manifest in Christ does, as we have been seeing, actually breathe into men a vigour, and consequently a freshness and a buoyancy that do not belong to themselves, and do not come from nature or from surrounding things. He lives in the heavenly places with his God. Psalms 32:7. (Homilist. Thus the prophet, who began his prayer with fear and trembling, concludes it with joy and triumph; for prayer is the support and consolation of a pious soul. Some think it appears from the last words, To the chief singers, &c., that this prayer was sung in the temple service. Psalms 18:33 Holy souls tremble at God's word, and with awful apprehensions look forward to the wrath ready to be revealed from heaven. Compare Psalms 18:32. will make, &c. Compare 2 Samuel 1:23; 2 Samuel 23:24. Euthymius saith of David, that he was Primi regis et lingua et cor et calamus, the tongue, heart, and pen of Almighty God. But not only is that so, but this same communion with God, which is the opening of the heart for the influx of the Divine power, brings to bear upon all our work new motives which redeem it from being oppressive, tedious, monotonous, trivial, too much for our endurance, or too little for our effort. And he will make me to walk, &c.— And cause me to tread again on my own high places. App-92. 1. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/habakkuk-3.html. Are you and I familiar with these upper ranges of thought and experience and life? It is the same thought, under a somewhat different garb, which the apostle has when he tells us that the Christian soldier ought to have his “feet shod with the alacrity that comes from the Gospel of peace.” We are to be always ready to run, and to run with light hearts when we do. And when this singer, or his brother psalmist in the other psalm that we have referred to, says “Thou makest my feet like hinds’ feet,” what he is thinking about is that fight and easy, springing, elastic gait, that swiftness of advance. Referring to the smitings of Jehovah on the enemies of Israel (Habakkuk 3:16). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/habakkuk-3.html. Houbigant, however, gives the last words another turn, rendering them thus: And shall bring me to the tops of the mountains to victory in my song; or, that I may overcome, when those things which I here sing shall have their completion. olive, shall yield no fruits, and sweetness shall be corrupted by vanities, and the oil of mercy shall be dried up, and lamps go out, and its promises shall fail and it shall lie, having “a show of goodness, but denying the power of it; in words confessing God, and in works denying Him;” and through their own negligences, or the carelessness of pastors, the sheep of Christ shall perish from His very fold, and they who should be strong to labor 1 Corinthians 9:9-10. shall cease, God‘s elect shall joy in Him, “beholding His goodness, and loving Him in all things, and He will give them free affections, and fervid longings of holy love, whereby they shall not walk only, but run the way of His commandments and prevail over the enemies of their salvation.”, Yet though this strength is inward, and used by man, still God who gives it, Himself guides it. The prophet had in his own, and in the name of all the godly, made a full profession of his faith, and resolution to behave himself with joy in midst of troubles, Habakkuk 3:17,18; now he gives us account on what ground he speaks so, it is not in his own strength he can do it, but it is because the Lord God is his strength. (St. Jerome). Many of the Psalms are directed in the same way. It is safe up there. Our prophet, as he partly imitated, and partly transcribed them in this Canticle, yea, in this verse, {confer Psalms 18:33-34} so he concludeth as David many times beginneth, To the chief chanter or music master, or, To him that excelleth in the art of singing and playing on instruments, those holy Levites, whose charge it was, 1 Chronicles 9:33, and for whom he doubted not but God would afford and provide new matter of psalmody, by compassing his people about with songs of deliverance. My God will return my captivity, and when I am set at liberty, as I shall be, by Cyrus, my God will be my strength, that, as a hind let loose, I may hasten to the mountains of Israel. "Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary". This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Habakkuk, and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. One wave of the hand, and they are miles away. It is a beautiful type of faith, Gazing upon the land which lies across the “narrow stream,” a man may take out his title-deeds and contemplate his possessions. They lift a man up to God. Selah. my stringed instruments. “High places” are the best things in life and experience. I shall escape the fury of the Chaldeans, and sing a hymn of thanksgiving. 1840-57. But so the landscape exists. And as he had confessed the Father, under the Name whereby He revealed Himself to Moses, and the Son, “the Lord God of my salvation,” so he confesses God the Holy Ghost, who, in us, is our strength. If we live in daily communion with God, another thought, too, will come in, which will, in like manner, make us ready to run with “cheerfulness” the race that is set before us. It is the mount … For the choir director, on my stringed instruments. 2. ‘Thou makest my feet like hinds’ feet’-if I get the new motive of love to God in Christ well into my heart so that it comes out and influences all my actions, there will be no more tasks too formidable to undertake, or too small to be worth an effort. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.#upon…: or, according to variable songs, or, tunes, called in Hebrew, Shigionoth O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive How precious indeed is the word of the Lord. At the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear; God himself fought for them, and directed them in the pursuit of their routed foes. Most worthy to be laid up in that Persian casket embroidered with gold and pearl, which Alexander reserved for Homer’s Iliad. Such rejoicing communion with God will give--, II. Franklin told them to just look in Habakkuk chapter 3. And as he seems to have had the beginning of Moses’s blessing in his eye, at Habakkuk 3:3, so in this he alludes to the conclusion of it. ", "In fruitful fields and flocks men had been taught to look for the presence and blessing of God; but here is a man who can dispense with all that, who can believe where he cannot see, who loves God, not for his gifts, but for himself, who can dispense with them all if he has but him."[37]. Our prophet, as he partly imitated, and partly transcribed them in this Canticle, yea, in this verse, {confer Psalms 18:33-34} so he concludeth as David many times beginneth, To the chief chanter or music master, or, To him that excelleth in the art of singing and playing on instruments, those holy Levites, whose charge it was, 1 Chronicles 9:33, and for whom he doubted not but God would afford and provide new matter of psalmody, by compassing his people about with songs of deliverance. The air is pure; the poison mists are down lower; the hunters do not come there; their arrows or their rifles will not carry so far. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years; give the people some tokens of regard before the captivity ends, or revive the work of grace among them, which cannot but comfort and support them. And He gives him feet that can clamber without slipping, and makes him walk in the high places, within his soul far from strife and trouble. He confirms the same truth,—that he sought no strength but in God alone. THE BLEAK SCENE. 1905. In “high places” men breathe more freely, so pure and exhilarating is the rarefied air. Houbigant, however, gives the last words another turn; rendering them thus, And shall bring me to the tops of the mountains to victory in my song; or, "that I may overcome, when those "things which I here sing shall have their completion.". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hcc/habakkuk-3.html. The first word some are wont to render conqueror. He at last adds, To the leader on my beatings. I. I do not think that the line makes any part of the prophecy, but merely the superscription or direction of the work when it was finished. I am at home there, and walk at liberty in the loftiness, and fear no fall amongst the cliffs. [Note: Wiersbe, p422.]. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. Such rejoicing communion with God will give light-footedness in the path of life. The author and giver of natural and spiritual strength, as he is to all his people; he is the strength of their hearts when ready to faint and sink, and of their graces, faith, hope, love, patience, &c. and continues and increases them, and draws them forth into lively acts and exercise; and of their lives, natural and spiritual, which he supports and maintains, secures and defends; from him they have their strength to perform the duties of religion; to oppose their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world; and to bear them up under all trials and afflictions, and carry them through them, and deliver out of them, and which is principally intended here: the church, though in distress, and pressed with sorrows, yet believed the strength of Christ would be made perfect in her weakness, and she should be upheld by him under all, and brought out of it: and he will make my feet like hinds' feet; swift as they, as the Targum, which are very swift; and on account of the swiftness of them is the comparison used: and which is to be understood, not barely of the Jews being swift of foot to return to their own country, when the time of their conversion is come; or to pursue their enemies, as Kimchi; that is, Gog or the Turks, having got the victory over them: but of all Christians, whose feet will be swift to run, in a lively cheerful manner, the way of Christ's commandments; their souls being strengthened, and their hearts enlarged with the love and grace of God; and to surmount with ease all difficulties and obstructions that lie in their way: and chiefly this regards the ministers of the Gospel, and the swift progress they will make in spreading it in the world; as the apostles and first ministers of the word, having their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace, went swiftly through all parts of the world, even to the ends of the earth, with it; so in the latter day many will run to and fro, everywhere preaching the everlasting Gospel to all nations; the knowledge of it shall greatly increase; see Daniel 12:4 this passage seems to be taken out of Psalm 18:33 and there may be not only an allusion to the swiftness of those creatures, but to the strength and firmness of their feet; so that they can go upon rocks and mountains securely, and tread and walk, and even run upon them with safety; and this sense is directed to, not only by what follows, concerning "walking" on "high places"; but by the word here used, which signifies to "make", or "set", fix, place, order, and settleF2ושם κ' ταξει, Sept.; "et ponet", V. 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