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title: "Commentary on Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Haggai"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
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section: 54 of 59
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Haggai, section 54. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-habakkuk-zephaniah-and-haggai/54/"
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# Commentary on Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Haggai

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Haggai.

## 54. Chapter 3

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[¶0] 1 The prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet respecting ignorances:

[¶1] 2 Jehovah! I heard thy voice, and was terrified; Jehovah! thy work in the midst of the years, revive it; In the midst of the years, make it known; In wrath thy mercy remember. (137)

[¶2] 3 God! from Teman he came; And the holy One from mount Paran: Selah: Cover the heaven did his glory; Of his praise full was the earth:

[¶3] 4 And brightness,—as the light it was; Horns,—from his hands they were; (143) And there was the hiding of his strength:

[¶4] 5 Before his face walked the pestilence, And come forth did burning coals at his feet:

[¶5] 6 He stood, and he measured the earth; He looked, and he dissolved nations; Yea, shattered were perennial mountains, Bent down were hills of antiquity; The ways of ages were his.

[¶6] 7 For iniquity saw I the tents of Cushan; (150) Tremble did the curtains of the land of Midian.

[¶7] 8 Wert thou angry with rivers, O Jehovah? Was thine indignation against rivers? Was thy wrath against the sea? For thou didst ride on thy horses, Thy chariots were salvation.

[¶8] 9 Quite bare was made thy bow: The oaths to the tribes was thy word: Selah: (155) With rivers didst thou cleave the earth.

[¶9] 10 See thee did mountains, they fell down; The stream of waters passed away; Utter its voice did the deep, On high did it raise its hands. (158)

[¶10] 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of thy arrows did they proceed, At the brightness of the glittering of thy spear. (160)

[¶11] 12 In wrath didst thou tread on the land, In anger didst thou thresh the nations:

[¶12] 13 Go forth didst thou for the salvation of thy people, For their salvation, with thy Christ: Strike didst thou the head from the house of the wicked, Making bare the foundation even to the neck: (164)

[¶13] 14 Smite didst thou with his own staffs the head of his villages: They rushed as a whirlwind to drive me away; Their joy was to devour the poor in secret:

[¶14] 15 A way hast thou made in the sea for thy horses, Through the heap of great waters. (168)

[¶15] 16 I heard,—and tremble did my bowels, At thy voice quiver did my lips; Enter did rottenness into my bones, And within me I made a great noise; That I might rest in the day of affliction, When he ascends against the people, Who shall cut them off. (171)

[¶16] 17 For the fig-tree shall not flourish, And no fruit shall be on the vines, Fail shall the produce of the olive, And the fields shall not bring forth food; cut off from the fold shall be the flock, And there shall be no ox in the stalls:

[¶17] 18 But I—in Jehovah will I exult, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation:

[¶18] 19 Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength; And he will set my feet as those of hinds, And on my high places will he make me to walk—To the leader on my beatings.

### Zephaniah

[¶20] A TRANSLATION of

[¶21] CALVIN’S VERSION of

[¶22] THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH.