Fantastic! These readings have always had a special meaning for me...especially that from Habakkuk. Something else from Habakkuk is THIS:
1:2 How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen!
The anguish of a downtrodden people.
(Habakkuk finds the Lord’s toleration of the wicked
very difficult to understand. God’s inactivity is intolerable.)
I cry out to you, “Violence!”
(This is a key word in Habakkuk and it refers to the violation of basic human rights which characterizes the confusion and anarchy of the times.)
but you do not intervene. 3 Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord.
(These evils are best identified with oppression by foreigners.)
2:2 Then the LORD answered me and said: Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets, so that one can read it readily.
(The Lord’s words are not meant for Habakkuk’s ears alone; the message is to be written down in letters so big that it can easily be read and at a later date checked to see if it is verified or not (See Isaiah 30:8).)
3 For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint; If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late.
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