Habakkuk 3:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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. Inasmuch as this ode is throughout an account of the deliverance anticipated by prayerful faith, it is called not a Psalm, mizmôr, but a Prayer, tphiltâh.

Habakkuk 3:1

1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.