In Habakkuk, a slender book of 56 verses, one encounters glorious passages, such as 2:4, 14, 20; 3:2, and sparkling apothegms, 1:11; 2:2, 11, which beckon one to learn more about the book and its ...

You don’t often hear about a prophet named Habakkuk. When it comes to prophets, he doesn’t get the same acclaim as Isaiah, whose God-inspired words produce images of star-filled heavens, a soaring ...

Habakkuk also lived in a time of injustice—and just like him, we must not look away. In the Old Testament, prophets were God’s spokespeople who told it to his people straight—we must pay attention.

In the first reading, the prophet Habakkuk expresses sadness and outrage over the suffering and violence in the world. He cries aloud asking why God has not intervened. The prophet’s powerful words ...

A fascinating little book in the Bible is from the prophet Habakkuk. He lived at a time of great wickedness in the Jewish southern kingdom of Judah. He looked around and saw all the injustice and ...

DEUTERONOMY 15:9-16:17, NUMBERS 28:26-3, HABAKKUK 2:20-3:19. Shortly before the Babylonian Exile in 587 BCE, Habakkuk in his workshop meditates on the visions he has seen: Babylonian soldiers storming ...