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The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
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Creation Obeys Its Creator
Commentators highlight the powerful poetic language where mountains tremble and the sea lifts its "hands." This personification shows that all of creation, even the most powerful and inanimate forces, recognizes and submits to God's authority. While humans may be unfeeling or disobedient, nature itself testifies to the awesome presence of its Maker.
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Habakkuk
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The mountains saw You and they trembled - literally, "they tremble." While man is unfeeling, inanimate nature feels and testifies t…
19th Century
Anglican
Habakkuk describes the “Theophany” or self-manifestation of Jehovah, which is to introduce the desired deliverance. The Authorised Version has unfo…
16th Century
Protestant
Habakkuk proceeds with the history of the people’s redemption. We have said what his object was, namely, that the people, though in an extreme stat…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled At the power and presence of God, as Sinai of old; (See Gill on Haba…
God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading the…