The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Nahum 3:16 (NIV)

16 You have increased the number of your merchants
till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts they strip the land
and then fly away.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Nahum 3:17 (NIV)

17 Your guards are like locusts,
your officials like swarms of locusts
that settle in the walls on a cold day –
but when the sun appears they fly away,
and no one knows where.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Nahum 3:18 (NIV)

18 King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber;
your nobles lie down to rest.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Nahum 3:19 (NIV)

19 Nothing can heal you;
your wound is fatal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands at your fall,
for who has not felt
your endless cruelty?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1 (NIV)

1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:2 (NIV)

How long, Lord, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’
but you do not save?

 

[SilverFox7]

Habakkuk 1:2 (NIV)

How long, Lord, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’
but you do not save?

This certainly seems to be the case at times, doesn't it? We expect instant answers and results from God, but He doesn't operate according to our expectations.

The silence can be deafening at times, and it's hard to understand why God doesn't clearly communicate to us in the same way we have interactions with fellow humans in this often violent and war-torn world that is living in separation from God (hell) in large part.

When the answers do come from God, it is an awesome experience, however. At times, it has taken years, but I can't think of one instance where He ignored my pleas for help. His ways are certainly higher than mine!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

This certainly seems to be the case at times, doesn't it? We expect instant answers and results from God, but He doesn't operate according to our expectations.

The silence can be deafening at times, and it's hard to understand why God doesn't clearly communicate to us in the same way we have interactions with fellow humans in this often violent and war-torn world that is living in separation from God (hell) in large part.

When the answers do come from God, it is an awesome experience, however. At times, it has taken years, but I can't think of one instance where He ignored my pleas for help. His ways are certainly higher than mine!

Please see the Verse by Verse Discussion Thread here: https://christianchat.com/bible-dis...-by-verse-continued-discussion-thread.188351/

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:2 (NIV)

How long, Lord, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’
but you do not save?

Habakkuk 1:3 (NIV)

3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:4 (NIV)

4 Therefore the law is paralysed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:5 (NIV)

5 ‘Look at the nations and watch –
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:6 (NIV)

6 I am raising up the Babylonians,
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwellings not their own.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:7 (NIV)

7 They are a feared and dreaded people;
they are a law to themselves
and promote their own honour.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:8 (NIV)

8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
fiercer than wolves at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:9 (NIV)

9 they all come intent on violence.
Their hordes advance like a desert wind
and gather prisoners like sand.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:10 (NIV)

10 They mock kings
and scoff at rulers.
They laugh at all fortified cities;
by building earthen ramps they capture them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:11 (NIV)

11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on –
guilty people, whose own strength is their god.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:12 (NIV)

12 Lord, are you not from everlasting?
My God, my Holy One, you will never die.
You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment;
you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:13 (NIV)

13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Habakkuk 1:14 (NIV)

14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
like the sea creatures that have no ruler.