Charles Ellicott Commentary Habakkuk 3:1

"A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth." — Habakkuk 3:1 (ASV)

Upon Shigionoth. —This term points, not to the contents of the composition, but either to its metrical structure or its musical setting. See on the Inscription of Psalms 7:0. Since this ode is throughout an account of the deliverance anticipated by prayerful faith, it is called not a Psalm, mizmôr, but a Prayer, t ’ philtâh.