Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 3:16

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

What dreadful desolations God threatned against Israel, chap. 1. ver. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. for of those he now speaketh of and meditateth on, having finisht his elegant description of Gods wonderful works of mercy toward Israel of old, and lest them as a Foundation of comfort and hope.

Or Heart, or Bowels, or inward parts, Prov. 20.27.

An other effect and sign of surprising fears and astonishment

at the meer report.

A Consumption, and decay of all my strength; a languishing of my Spirits, and a declining of my vigour, a very usual effect of great fears.

I was all shaken, as with an Earthquake, no part was free or unshaken.

These fears awakened my remembrance of that God, and those wonders which I have recounted, these fears have occasioned my search into this Mystery of Providence, that understanding it, I might, as I do, betake my self to God, and his Covenanted Mercies, that I may rest in him who will make it g[illegible: 2 letters] well with the Righteous, even with those righteous who shall live to see, and feel the troubles of those days.

The King of Babylon, with all his bitter and cruel Nations bent on violence and rapine.

Against the Iews, my people, saith the Prophet

with mighty force, and cut in pieces, make most bloody work among them.

With numerous Armies and spoil in Troops, where what one leaves, another will take; where none escape the fury of some or other in the Troops, see this accomplisht 2 Kings, chap. 25.

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