Habakkuk 1:6

I raise up, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49; Deuteronomy 28:5). App-92.

theirs. Hebrew his; and so throughout this chapter.

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Bitter — Cruel, and without mercy. Hasty — Speedy in executing their merciless purposes.

⁶ For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadthb of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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