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Hab. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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O Lord, I have heard thy ηspeech, and was afraid: O Lord, θreviveg thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

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report, or, hearing.

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John 10:10• ¹⁰The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly. (John 10:10)

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or, preserve alive.

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Hab. 3:16• ¹⁶I heard, and my belly trembled; My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, That I might rest in the day of distress, When their invader shall come up against the people. (Hab. 3:16)

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Hab. 1:5‑10• ⁵See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be declared to you.
⁶For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, which marcheth through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
⁷They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
⁸And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
⁹They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.
¹⁰Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a scorn unto him; he derideth every stronghold: for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it. (Hab. 1:5‑10)

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Ex. 9:20‑21• ²⁰He that feared the word of Jehovah among the bondmen of Pharaoh made his bondmen and his cattle flee into the houses.
²¹But he that did not regard the word of Jehovah left his bondmen and his cattle in the field. (Ex. 9:20‑21)

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2 Chron. 34:27‑28• ²⁷Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.
²⁸Behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought the king word again. (2 Chron. 34:27‑28)

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Job 4:12‑21• ¹²Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
¹³In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:--
¹⁴Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;
¹⁵And a spirit passed before my face--the hair of my flesh stood up--
¹⁶It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice:
¹⁷Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
¹⁸Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:
¹⁹How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
²⁰From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
²¹Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom. (Job 4:12‑21)

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Psa. 119:120• ¹²⁰My flesh shuddereth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. (Psa. 119:120)

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Isa. 66:2• ²Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word. (Isa. 66:2)

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Jer. 36:21‑24• ²¹And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he fetched it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.
²²Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month, and with the fire-pan burning before him.
²³And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
²⁴And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words. (Jer. 36:21‑24)

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Dan. 8:17• ¹⁷And he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was afraid, and fell on my face; and he said unto me, Understand, son of man; for the vision is for the time of the end. (Dan. 8:17)

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Heb. 11:7• ⁷By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. (Heb. 11:7)

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Heb. 12:21• ²¹and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;) (Heb. 12:21)

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Rev. 15:4• ⁴Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all nations shall come and do homage before thee; for thy righteousnesses have been made manifest. (Rev. 15:4)

speech.

Heb. report, or hearing.

Isa. 53:1• ¹Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? (Isa. 53:1)

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Rom. 10:16• ¹⁶But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report? (Rom. 10:16)

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Ezra 9:8• ⁸And now for a little space there hath been favour from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. (Ezra 9:8)

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Psa. 85:6• ⁶Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee? (Psa. 85:6)

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Psa. 90:13‑17• ¹³Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
¹⁴Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, according to the years wherein we have seen evil.
¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.
¹⁷And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. (Psa. 90:13‑17)

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Psa. 138:7‑8• ⁷Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the anger of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
⁸Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me: thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, endureth for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands. (Psa. 138:7‑8)

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Isa. 51:9‑11• ⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, as in the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, and pierced the monster?
¹⁰Is it not thou that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
¹¹So the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (Isa. 51:9‑11)

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Isa. 63:15‑19• ¹⁵Look down from the heavens, 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 tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?
¹⁶For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name.
¹⁷Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
¹⁸Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
¹⁹We have become like those over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name. (Isa. 63:15‑19)

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Isa. 64:1‑4• ¹Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,--that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
²--as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence!
³When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
⁴Never have men heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath eye seen a God beside thee, who acteth for him that waiteth for him. (Isa. 64:1‑4)

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Hos. 6:2‑3• ²After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face;
³and we shall know,--we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth. (Hos. 6:2‑3)

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John 10:10• ¹⁰The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly. (John 10:10)

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Phil. 1:6• ⁶having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day: (Phil. 1:6)

revive.

or, preserve alive.

in the.

Jer. 25:11‑12• ¹¹And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
¹²And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations. (Jer. 25:11‑12)

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Jer. 52:31‑34• ³¹And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
³²and he spoke kindly unto him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
³³And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
³⁴and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. (Jer. 52:31‑34)

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Dan. 9:2• ²in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, was seventy years. (Dan. 9:2)

in wrath.

Ex. 32:10‑12• ¹⁰And now let me alone, that my anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.
¹¹And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Why, Jehovah, doth thy wrath burn against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
¹²Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people! (Ex. 32:10‑12)

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Num. 14:10‑23• ¹⁰And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.
¹¹And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?
¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
¹³And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;
¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
¹⁵if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
¹⁶Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
¹⁸Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
²¹But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
²²for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
²³shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it. (Num. 14:10‑23)

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Num. 16:46‑47• ⁴⁶And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put fire thereon from off the altar, and lay on incense, and carry it quickly to the assembly, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah: the plague is begun.
⁴⁷And Aaron took as Moses had said, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and behold, the plague had begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made atonement for the people. (Num. 16:46‑47)

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2 Sam. 24:10‑17• ¹⁰And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, Jehovah, put away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
¹¹And when David arose in the morning, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
¹²Go and say to David, Thus saith Jehovah: I impose on thee three things; choose one of them that I may do it unto thee.
¹³And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
¹⁴And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.
¹⁵And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
¹⁶And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
¹⁷And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Behold, it is I that have sinned, and it is I that have committed iniquity; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be on me, and on my father's house! (2 Sam. 24:10‑17)

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Psa. 6:1‑2• ¹To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.
²Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble. (Psa. 6:1‑2)

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Psa. 38:1• ¹A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. (Psa. 38:1)

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Psa. 78:38• ³⁸But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury: (Psa. 78:38)

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Jer. 10:24• ²⁴Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. (Jer. 10:24)

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Jer. 29:10• ¹⁰For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in bringing you back to this place. (Jer. 29:10)

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Lam. 3:32• ³²but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses: (Lam. 3:32)

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Zech. 1:12• ¹²And the angel of Jehovah answered and said, Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years? (Zech. 1:12)

• "O Lord, revive Thy work." He does not pray for a great public revival among the people of God, that might bring them into prominence, but he longs to see the Lord working in the midst of their trials. (“Habakkuk” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah, I heard the report of thee, and I feared. Jehovah, revive thy workc in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known: In wrath remember mercy!

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Poal. as ch. 1.5.