ערות 13. Habakkuk 3:13 Hebrew Text Analysis

Perâzōn has the same meaning in and	There seems to be a double metaphor in the words, expressing the utter ruin and destruction of antichrist and his party; who, being compared to a building, will be demolished, and razed to the very foundation; that will be dug up, and laid bare, and no trace of an edifice to be seen any more; and, being compared to a human body, will be plunged into such distresses and calamities, as to be as it were up to the neck in them, from whence there is no escape and deliverance
And how much more glorious will be his second coming, to put an end to all that opposes him, and all that causes suffering to his people! Habakkuk 3:13 In there follows a description of the judgment upon the nations for the rescue of the people of God	God reveals himself for the salvation of his people in union with the work especially of his anointed Son, Christ

Perâzōn has the same meaning in and

There seems to be a double metaphor in the words, expressing the utter ruin and destruction of antichrist and his party; who, being compared to a building, will be demolished, and razed to the very foundation; that will be dug up, and laid bare, and no trace of an edifice to be seen any more; and, being compared to a human body, will be plunged into such distresses and calamities, as to be as it were up to the neck in them, from whence there is no escape and deliverance

And how much more glorious will be his second coming, to put an end to all that opposes him, and all that causes suffering to his people! Habakkuk 3:13 In there follows a description of the judgment upon the nations for the rescue of the people of God

God reveals himself for the salvation of his people in union with the work especially of his anointed Son, Christ

Chōmer, in the sense of heap, as in , is not an accusative, but is still dependent upon the ב of the parallel clause.

Habakkuk 3:13 Hebrew Text Analysis: Out of the house; royal palaces, or ancient dwellings, and settled habitations; of which slaughter of Canaanitish kings, see
Habakkuk 3:13 Commentaries: You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.: The perfects in are prophetic, describing the future in spirit as having already occurred
Habakkuk 3:13 Hebrew Text Analysis: How glorious his resurrection and ascension! It must be confessed, however, that most modern commentaters translate, "for the salvation of thy anointed," taking the last expression contrary to all usage to mean the Israelites, as being a kingdom and nation of priests

Thou woundedst the head; gavest a deadly wound to the princes and kings of Canaan, enemies to Israel, who were cut off, and their families utterly destroyed	It is a possible rendering, but few impartial Hebraists will deny that the other is preferable
Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked; thou dashest in pieces the head	The meaning of the first clause of the verse depends upon the explanation to be given to the word perâzâv

We are not ignorant of his devices; and, to another is given the discerning of spirits.

mako החדשות: Even in it is not the Israelites who are called by God "my anointed" meshı̄chai , but the patriarchs, as princes consecrated by God
Leviticus 18:13 Hebrew Text Analysis: God from the beginning delivered His people in person, or by the hand of a Mediator Isa 63:11
Habakkuk 3:13 Commentaries: You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.: Maurer translates to suit the parallelism, "for salvation to Thine anointed," namely, Israel's king in the abstract, answering to the "people" in the former clause compare Ps 28:8; La 4:20

ערות, a rare form of the inf	Just as God went through the Red Sea in the olden time to lead Israel through, and to destroy the Egyptian army, so will He in the future go through the sea and do the same, when He goes forth to rescue His people out of the power of the Chaldaean
You come out to save Your people, to save Your anointed	For the salvation; to complete the salvation begun in bringing them out of Egypt, and carrying them through the wilderness, and to be finished in settling them in Canaan

Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked — That is, the heads, or confederate princes, of the Canaanites, ; ; by discovering the foundation unto the neck — Or, as Green renders it, Thou rasedst the foundations even to the rock.

Leviticus 18:13 Hebrew Text Analysis: Prophecy, in speaking of the first, has in mind all the rest, and chiefly the chiefest and the end of all, the full salvation of His people through Jesus Christ our Lord
Habakkuk 3:13 Commentaries: You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.: In order that these enemies may be utterly destroyed, God passes through the sea
mako החדשות: In the last half of the verse two figures are blended—those of a house and a human body