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Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 3:6

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Habakkuk3:6

6 He stood and measured the earth : he beheld , and drove asunder the nations , and the everlasting mountains were scattered , the perpetual hills did bow : his wayes are everlasting .

Gave his presence with Ioshuah, and others, as one that stood by while the work was done.

He divided to them their inheritance, and did this without toil or difficulty, his very presence with his people was enough to make it known what he allotted to them.

The promised Land.

Lookt with a frowning countenance, with anger in his eye.

Cast them out, or caused them to fly, as many did out of that Country, his Eye did this, for he lookt on them, and did this.

The cursed Nations.

Either literally understood, as Nahum 1.5. and may relate to that the Psalmist minds, Psal. 114.4, 6. when the whole Mount, all the Mountainous parts of Sinai tremble, Exod. 19.18. &c. or figuratively, the state of these Nations, seeming as immoveable as Mountains, yet soon shook and dissolved, before the rebuke of the Lord.

An elegant immutation of the phrase, to illustrate and confirm the same thing.

The wisdom, goodness, justice, holiness, faithfulness and power of God, which he sheweth in the methods of his governing his Church and People, are everlasting, they are the same, and where the same circumstances concurr, the same effects of his power may be hoped for; So the Prophet pursueth the argument; They are everlasting loving kindnesses with which he embraceth his Church.

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