1, 2. A prayer of Habukkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord (Jehovah), revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

He shall judge the people with The mountains righteousness. shall bring forth peace to the people, and the little hills by righteousness. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass; as showers water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish. Ps. lxxii. 2, 3, 6, 7. Wilt thou be angry for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Wilt thou not revive us again; that thy people may rejoice in thee? Show us thy salvation. Ps. lxxxv. 5-7. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness more than the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. cx. 3. Look down from heaven-where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me?-Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Isa. lxiii. 15, 17. I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. After two days he will revive us.— His coming is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain upon the earth. Hos. v. 15; vi. 1-3. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ-whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, &c. Acts iii. 19-21.-What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead? Rom. xi. 15.

In the midst of the years make known, in wrath remember mercy.

O that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down to make thy name known to thine adversaries, &c. Isa. Ixiv. 1, 2. So will I make my name known in the midst of my people Israel.-And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. Ezek. xxxix. 7. Who shall not glorify thy name for thy judgments are made manifest. Rev. xv. 4.

In wrath remember mercy.

I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal.-Rejoice ye nations with his people: for He will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people. Deut. xxxii. 39, 43. His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. The Lord God hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Ps. xcviii. 1-3. When thou didst terrible things we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath eye seen, O God, besides thee, what He hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Isa. lxiv. 3, 4.-The time that thou shouldest give reward to thy serv

ants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth, Rev. xi. 18. He gathered them to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. He treadeth the wine-press -without the city.-I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of heaven.

3. God came from Teman (in Edom) and the holy one from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the earth, &c.

This is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death, And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a law of fire for them. Yea, he loved the people. Deut. xxxiii. 1-3. (And Enoch also prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judg ment upon all. Jude 14.) Who shall bring me into Edom? Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst not gone forth with our armies ?-He it is that shall tread down our enemies. Ps. lx. 9-12; cviii. 10-13. The indignation of the Lord is upon all nations.-For my sword shall be bathed in heaven, it shall come down upon Idumea. For the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. Isa. xxxiv. 2, 5, 6. Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold his reward is with him, and his work before him.-Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah. This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength, &c. Isa. lxii. 11; lxiii. 1. The winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the wine-press-by the space of a thousand six hundred furlongs. Rev. xiv. 20.

His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power.

The earth was full of his praise.

His brightness was as the light.

They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Matt. xxiv. 30. On his head were many crowns.-And He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. Rev. xix. 12, 16.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise -before the Lord; for He com eth to judge the earth, &c. Ps. xcviii. 4, &c.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed away. Ps. xviii. 12. His eyes were, as a flame of fire., Rev. xix. 12.

And there was the hiding of his power.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Ps. ii. 12. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. Ps. xviii. 11. Except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Matt. xxiv. 22.

5. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

6. He stood and measured the earth: He beheld and drove asunder the nations:

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Dan. vii. 10. I will plead against him with pestilence.—I will rain upon him-fire and brimstone. Ezek. xxxviii. 22.

Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered as smoke is driven away, so drive (them) away. Ps. lxviii. 1, 2. At the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. Isa. xxxiii. 3. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, &c., hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains

And the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow

His ways are everlasting.

7. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian tremble.

8. Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses, thy chariots of salvation.

And said to the mountains, Fall on us, &c. Rev. vi. 15, 16. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. vi. 14, &c.

And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. xxi. 6.

Rebuke the company of spearmen-scatter thou the people that delight in war-Ethiopia (Heb. Cush) shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Ps. lxviii. 30, 31.

And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry shod. And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. And in that day, thou shalt say— Behold, God is my salvation. Isa. xi. 15, 16; xii. 1, 2. According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvelous things. Mic. vii. 15.

Thou didst ride upon thine horses, (and) chariots of salvation.

And I saw heaven opened, and, behold, a white horse; and He that sat on him was called Faith

ful and True-His name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses. Rev. xix. 11-14. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Jude 14.

Thou didst ride upon thy horses, (and) the chariots of salvation. 9. Thy bow was made quite naked.

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals-and I saw, and, behold, a white horse: and He that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given him; and He went forth conquering, and to conquer. Rev. vi. 1, 2. They that are with him (the Lamb) are called, and chosen, and faithful. xvii. 14. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all. Jude 14.-I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them. Deut. xxxii. 23. He hath bent his Bow, and made it ready.-He ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Ps. vii. 12, 13. Thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things; Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies, whereby the people fall under thee. Ps. xlv 4, 5.

9. Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes ("or, rather, 'to thy tribes'"), even thy word. 6. He beheld, and drove asunder the nations. 12, 13. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed.

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Gen. xv. 18. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Gen. xvii. 7, 8. And Abraham said-The Lord God of heaven-sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land. Gen. xxiv. 6, 7. Unto thee and thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father. xxvi. 3; xxviii. 13-15. The number of thy days I will fulfill. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. Ex. xxiii. 26, 27. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. Deut. vii. 7-9. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and

your officers, with all the men of Israel-that thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day, that He may establish thee to-day for a people unto himself, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He hath said unto thee, and as He hath sworn unto thy fathers-to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, &c. Deut. xxix. 10-13. And it shall come to pass, when all those things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the Lord thy God.-And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the Lord thy God will put all those curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee, &c. Deut. xxx. 1-7.-He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant He made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac, and confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance. Ps. cv. 7-11. Violence shall no more be heard in thy land. The people shall be all righteous they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. I the Lord will hasten it in his (its) time. Isa. Ix. 18, 21, 22.Thus saith the Lord God-Ye (the twelve tribes of Israel) shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers, &c. Ezek. xlvii. 13, 14. As touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Rom. xi. 28, 29.

10. The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

My cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was wroth. Then the channels of waters were seen. Ps. xviii. 6, 7, 15. We are (thine): thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, &c. Isa. lxiii, 19; Ixiv. 1. The seas and waves roaring. Luke xxi. 25.-Every mountain and island were moved out of their places. Rev. vi. 14.

The overflowing of the water passed by.

His breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity. Isa. xxx. 28. But now saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by