Habakkuk Chapter 1 verse 1 Holy Bible
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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The burden that Habakkuk the prophet hath seen:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - ยง 1. The inscription of the book. The burden (see note on Nahum 1:1). The prophet (Habakkuk 3:1). This title, which is added in the inscriptions only to the names of Haggai and Zechariah, and cursorily to that of Jeremiah (46, 47, 50.), implies that he exercised the practical office of prophet, and was well known; and, as Pusey thinks, Habakkuk appended it here on account of the form in which his prophecy is cast, as being addressed almost entirely to God or the Chaldeans, not to his own people. Did see. In prophetic vision (see note on Amos 1:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1-4) Habakkuk complains of the apparent triumph of wickedness among his countrymen.(1) The prophet.--This title (han-nabi) is applied only to Habakkuk, Haggai, and Zechariah. In the later historical books it is used to designate the members of those prophetical colleges which were founded by Samuel, and kept up, at all events, till the time of Elisha. It is uncertain whether in these three minor prophets it has a similar force, or merely, as in the Pentateuch, indicates a chosen minister whom God inspires to reveal His will. On the term burden, or sentence, see Isaiah 13:1.
