Habakkuk 3:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

When. heard. See the Structure (p. 1269).

belly. body.

voice. voice [saying].

rottenness. decay. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "restlessness".

myself. Place. full stop here, and commence. new sentence.

that. might. O that. might find (or be at) rest, &c.

he: i.e. the invader.

unto. against.

he will invade. he will overcome. Heb gud. Occurs only here, and Genesis 49:19.

Habakkuk 3:16

16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.