Behold you among the nations, and regard, and wonder and be astonished: for I will work a work in your days, which you will not believe, though it be told you.
All Commentaries on Habakkuk 1:5 Go To Habakkuk 1
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Among. Septuagint ye despisers. St. Paul nearly agrees with this version, Acts xiii. 41. The copies vary, as the Hebrew has done. (Calmet)
The apostle gives the mystical sense; the literal is very obscure. (Worthington)
God answers the prophet's complaints, and shows that the Chaldeans shall punish the guilty, and afterwards be themselves chastised.
