Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Habakkuk 3:2

“O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.”

Habakkuk 3:2 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Habakkuk 3:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Habakkuk 3. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 85:6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
  • Psalms 90:13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
  • Hosea 6:2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
  • Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
  • Lamentations 3:32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
  • Philippians 1:6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
  • Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they …
  • Habakkuk 3:16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto th…
  • Isaiah 54:8In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
  • Jeremiah 10:24O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
  • Habakkuk 1:5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
  • Psalms 119:120My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
  • Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
  • John 10:10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

More to meet God in Habakkuk

Habakkuk 3:19Habakkuk 1:4Habakkuk 1:12Habakkuk 3:10Habakkuk 2:5Habakkuk 2:8Habakkuk 3:6Habakkuk 3:3Habakkuk 3:18Habakkuk 2:3Habakkuk 1:13Habakkuk 2:18

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.