Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Habakkuk 2:19
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Habakkuk2:19
19. Awake--Arise to my help.
it shall teach!--rather, An exclamation of the prophet, implying an ironical question to which a negative answer must be given. What! "It teach?" Certainly not [Maurer]. Or, "It (the idol itself) shall (that is, ought to) teach you that it is deaf, and therefore no God" [Calvin]. Compare "they are their own witnesses" (Is 44:9).
Behold--The Hebrew is nominative, "There it is" [Henderson].
it is laid over with gold ... no breath ... in the midst--Outside it has some splendor, within none.
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