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Habakkuk’s Complaint
Habakkuk 1:2 (ESV)
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help,
and you will not hear?

We sometimes feel like this ourselves.
Habakkuk cries out to the Lord about the evil
he sees in Judah and ask why God lets it persist.

The LORD’S Answer
Habakkuk 1:5-6 (ESV)
“Look among the nations, and see;
wonder and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days
that you would not believe if told.
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth,
to seize dwellings not their own.

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint
Habakkuk 1:13 (ESV)
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?

Habakkuk did not like God's answer.
He did not understand why God would let Chaldeans
who were even more wicked than Judah to be the
ones to pour out his punishment on Judah.

Habakkuk 2:1 (ESV)
I will take my stand at my watchpost
and station myself on the tower,
and look out to see what he will say to me,
and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

Habakkuk said that he would wait on the Lord take his
place at the watch post and he took his stationed on the
tower and wait on the Lord to answer him.

The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith  
Habakkuk 2:2-3 (ESV)
And the LORD answered me:
“Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.

If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.

God tells Habakkuk what God says will happen and to
write it down on a stone. it will happen in God's timing.

Habakkuk’s Prayer
Habakkuk 3:2 (ESV)
O LORD, I have heard the report of you,
and your work, O LORD, do I fear.
In the midst of the years revive it;
in the midst of the years make it known;
in wrath remember mercy.

Habakkuk hears how bad and ruthless the Chaldeans are
and ask God to show some mercy on Judah.

Habakkuk Rejoices in the LORD
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (ESV)
Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
GOD, the Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet like the deer’s;
he makes me tread on my high places.
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

We need to rejoice in the Lord no matter what the
situation is or how bad it looks for the Lord is our salvation.