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Hab. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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O Lord, I have heard thy ηspeech, and was afraid: O Lord, θreviveg thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

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report, or, hearing.

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John 10:10• ¹⁰The thief cometh not unless that he may steal and slaughter and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundantly. (John 10:10)

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or, preserve alive.

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I have.

Hab. 3:16• ¹⁶When I heard, my belly trembled; (Hab. 3:16)

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Hab. 1:5‑10• ⁵Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
⁶For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs.
⁷They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
⁸Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; and they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
⁹They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
¹⁰And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. (Hab. 1:5‑10)

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Ex. 9:20‑21• ²⁰He that feared the word of Jehovah among the bondmen of Pharaoh made his bondmen and his cattle flee into the houses.
²¹But he that did not regard the word of Jehovah left his bondmen and his cattle in the field. (Ex. 9:20‑21)

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2 Chron. 34:27‑28• ²⁷Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard thee , saith Jehovah.
²⁸Behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought the king word again. (2 Chron. 34:27‑28)

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Job 4:12‑21• ¹²And to me there stole a word,{HR}And mine ear caught a whisper from it,
¹³In thoughts from visions of the night,{HR}When deep sleep falleth on man;
¹⁴Shuddering befell me, and trembling,{HR}Which shook the multitude of my bones;
¹⁵And a spirit glideth before me:{HR}The hairs of my body bristled up.
¹⁶It stood there—I discerned not its appearance—{HR}An image before mine eyes: Silence! and a voice I hear,
¹⁷Is a mortal more just than God?{HR}Is a man purer than his Maker?
¹⁸Behold, his servants he trusteth not,{HR}And to his angels he ascribeth error;
¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,{HR}The foundation of which [is] in the dust,{HR}Which are crushed as though moths.
²⁰From morning to evening they are destroyed;{HR}Before anyone marketh it they perish forever.
²¹Is not their cord in them torn away?{HR}They die, and not in wisdom. (Job 4:12‑21)

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Psa. 119:120• ¹²⁰My flesh shuddereth for fear of thee,{HR}And I am afraid of thy judgments. (Psa. 119:120)

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Isa. 66:2• ²Even all those [things] hath my hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith Jehovah. But to this [man] will I look, to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and trembling at my word. (Isa. 66:2)

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Jer. 36:21‑24• ²¹So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
²²Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
²³And it came to pass that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
²⁴Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. (Jer. 36:21‑24)

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Dan. 8:17• ¹⁷And he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was afraid, and fell on my face; and he said unto me, Understand, O son of man; for at the time of the end shall be the vision. (Dan. 8:17)

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Heb. 11:7• ⁷By faith Noah, oracularly warned of things not yet beheld, moved with fear, constructed an ark for saving his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness that is according to faith. (Heb. 11:7)

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Heb. 12:21• ²¹and, so fearful was the appearance, Moses said, I am affrighted and trembling all over. (Heb. 12:21)

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Rev. 15:4• ⁴Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all the nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy righteousnesses were manifested. (Rev. 15:4)

speech.

Heb. report, or hearing.

Isa. 53:1• ¹Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? (Isa. 53:1)

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Rom. 10:16• ¹⁶But not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias says, “Lord, who believed our report?” (Rom. 10:16)

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Ezra 9:8• ⁸And now for a little space grace hath been showed from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. (Ezra 9:8)

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Psa. 85:6• ⁶Wilt thou not revive us again,{HR}That thy people may rejoice in thee? (Psa. 85:6)

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Psa. 90:13‑17• ¹³Return, Jehovah: how long?{HR}And repent as to thy servants.
¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy,{HR}And we will rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵Make us glad like the days thou hast afflicted us,{HR}The years we have seen evil.
¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants,{HR}And thy majesty to their sons.
¹⁷And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us,{HR}And the work of our hands establish thou upon us;{HR}Even the work of our hands, establish thou it. (Psa. 90:13‑17)

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Psa. 138:7‑8• ⁷If I walk in the midst of distress, thou wilt revive me;{HR}Upon the wrath of mine enemies thou wilt stretch forth thy hand,{HR}And thy right hand shall save me.
⁸Jehovah will perfect as to me:{HR}Jehovah, thy mercy [is] forever;{HR}Forsake not the works of thy hands. (Psa. 138:7‑8)

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Isa. 51:9‑11• ⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the ancient days, the generations of old. [Art] thou not he that cut Rahab in pieces, [and] wounded the monster?
¹⁰[Art] thou not he who dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over.
¹¹And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (Isa. 51:9‑11)

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Isa. 63:15‑19• ¹⁵Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies? Are they restrained toward me?
¹⁶For thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Jehovah, [art] our father; our Redeemer, from everlasting [is] thy name.
¹⁷O Jehovah, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways—hast thou hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
¹⁸The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
¹⁹We have become of old [like those] thou never ruledst, those not called by thy name. (Isa. 63:15‑19)

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Isa. 64:1‑4• ¹Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down—that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
²as fire kindleth brushwood, [as] fire causeth the waters to boil—to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!
³When thou didst terrible things we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
⁴Ever since the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, a God besides thee, who will act for him that waiteth for him. (Isa. 64:1‑4)

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Hos. 6:2‑3• ²After two days he will revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
³And we shall know, — we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth. (Hos. 6:2‑3)

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John 10:10• ¹⁰The thief cometh not unless that he may steal and slaughter and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundantly. (John 10:10)

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Phil. 1:6• ⁶being confident of this very thing, that he who began in you a good work will complete [it] until [the] day of Jesus Christ; (Phil. 1:6)

revive.

or, preserve alive.

in the.

Jer. 25:11‑12• ¹¹And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
¹²And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. (Jer. 25:11‑12)

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Jer. 52:31‑34• ³¹And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
³²and he spoke kindly unto him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
³³And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
³⁴and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. (Jer. 52:31‑34)

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Dan. 9:2• ²In the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. (Dan. 9:2)

in wrath.

Ex. 32:10‑12• ¹⁰Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.
¹¹And Moses besought Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
¹²Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. (Ex. 32:10‑12)

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Num. 14:10‑23• ¹⁰But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
¹¹And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?
¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
¹³And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians shall hear it (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them);
¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou, Jehovah, art among this people, that thou, Jehovah, art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
¹⁵Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
¹⁶Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken.
¹⁸Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
²¹but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
²²for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
²³shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it. (Num. 14:10‑23)

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Num. 16:46‑47• ⁴⁶And Moses said unto Aaron, Take the censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun.
⁴⁷And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made atonement for the people. (Num. 16:46‑47)

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2 Sam. 24:10‑17• ¹⁰And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, Jehovah, put away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
¹¹And when David arose in the morning, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
¹²Go and say to David, Thus saith Jehovah: I impose on thee three things; choose one of them that I may do it unto thee.
¹³And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
¹⁴And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.
¹⁵And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
¹⁶And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
¹⁷And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Behold, it is I that have sinned, and it is I that have committed iniquity; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be on me, and on my father's house! (2 Sam. 24:10‑17)

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Psa. 6:1‑2• ¹To the chief musician on stringed instruments, upon Sheminith;{HR}A Psalm of David.{HR}O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,{HR}And chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.
²Be merciful unto me, O Jehovah, for I am languishing;{HR}Heal me, O Jehovah, for my bones are terrified. (Psa. 6:1‑2)

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Psa. 38:1• ¹A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance.{HR}O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,{HR}Nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. (Psa. 38:1)

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Psa. 78:38• ³⁸But he mercifully forgave iniquity, and destroyed not,{HR}And often withdrew his anger and did not arouse all his wrath; (Psa. 78:38)

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Jer. 10:24• ²⁴Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. (Jer. 10:24)

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Jer. 29:10• ¹⁰For thus saith Jehovah, that after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. (Jer. 29:10)

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Lam. 3:32• ³²but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. (Lam. 3:32)

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Zech. 1:12• ¹²Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? (Zech. 1:12)

• "O Lord, revive Thy work." He does not pray for a great public revival among the people of God, that might bring them into prominence, but he longs to see the Lord working in the midst of their trials. (“Habakkuk” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah, I heard the report of thee, and I feared. Jehovah, revive thy workc in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known: In wrath remember mercy!

JND Translation Notes

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Poal. as ch. 1.5.

W. Kelly Translation

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O Jehovah, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid.