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The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received. Habakkuk’s Complaint - How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
The Book of Habakkuk. Habakkuk is the only prophet to devote his entire work to the question of the justice of God’s government of the world. In the Bible as a whole, only Job delivers a more pointed challenge to divine rule.
Major works. Book of Habakkuk. Habakkuk, [a] or Habacuc, [1] who was active around 612 BCE, was a prophet whose oracles and prayer are recorded in the Book of Habakkuk, the eighth of the collected twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. [2] He is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Habakkuk provides us one of the most remarkable sections in all of Scripture, as it contains an extended dialogue between Habakkuk and God (Habakkuk 1–2). The prophet initiated this conversation based on his distress about God’s “inaction” in the world.
This summary of the book of Habakkuk provides information about the title, author (s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Book of Habakkuk.
Habakkuk 1. Habakkuk’s First Complaint. 1 This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision: 2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help. but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!”.
The book of Habakkuk tells us about Habakkuk’s personal struggle to believe that God is good when there is so much tragedy and evil in the world. Many of Habakkuk’s words are actually poems of lament, similar to the lamentations in the book of Psalms.
