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PARALLEL BIBLE - Habakkuk 3:13


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King James Bible - Habakkuk 3:13

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

World English Bible

You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.

Douay-Rheims - Habakkuk 3:13

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

Webster's Bible Translation

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thy anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by uncovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.

Original Hebrew

יצאת
3318 לישׁע 3468 עמך 5971 לישׁע 3468 את 853 משׁיחך 4899 מחצת 4272 ראשׁ 7218 מבית 1004 רשׁע 7563 ערות 6168 יסוד 3247 עד 5704 צואר 6677 סלה׃ 5542

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VERSE (13) -
Ex 14:13,14; 15:1,2 Ps 68:7,19-23

SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:13

Saliste para salvar a tu pueblo, para salvar con tu Ungido. Traspasaste la cabeza de la casa del impío, desnudando el cimiento hasta el cuello. Selah.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 3:13

Verse 13. Thou wentest forth for the
salvation of thy people] Their deliverance would not have been effected but through thy interference.

For salvation with thine anointed] That is, with Joshua, whom God had anointed, or solemnly appointed to fill the place of Moses, and lead the people into the promised land. If we read, with the common text, űjyŤm meshichecha, "thy anointed," the singular number, Joshua is undoubtedly meant, who was God's instrument to put the people in possession of Canaan: but if, with several MSS. and some copies of the Septuagint, we read űyjyŤm meshicheycha, "thy anointed ones," the Israelites must be intended. They are frequently called God's anointed, or God's saints. The sense is very far- fetched when applied to Jesus Christ.

Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked] This alludes to the slaying of the first-born through all the land of Egypt. These were the heads of the houses or families.

By discovering the foundation unto the neck.] The general meaning of this clause is sufficiently plain: the government of these lands should be utterly subverted; the very foundations of it should be razed. But what means unto the neck, rawx d[ ad tsavvar? Several critics read rwx d[ ad tsar, "Unto the ROCK," that on which the house is founded: and this very intelligible reading is obtained by the omission of a single letter, a aleph, from the word r[wx , This conjecture has been adopted by Newcome, though unsupported either by MS. or version. But is the conjecture necessary? I think not: read the verse as it ought to be read, and all will be plain. "Thou hast wounded the head even unto the neck, in the house of the wicked, by laying bare the foundation." The whole head, neck, and all are cut off. There was no hope left to the Egyptians, because the first-born of every family was cut off, so that the very foundation was laid bare, no first-born being left to continue the heirship of families.


John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 13. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of that people, [even] for salvation with thine anointed , etc.] Or, “thy Messiah”; which Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret of Messiah the son of David; and read and give the sense of the words thus, “as thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, by bringing them into the land of Canaan, so do thou go forth for salvation with thy Messiah.”

God of old went forth in his power and providence for the salvation of his people, whom he chose above all people to be his special and peculiar people; making use of Moses and Aaron in bringing them out of Egypt, and leading them through the wilderness, and of Joshua to introduce them, and settle them in the land of Canaan; who were all types of Christ in the salvation of the chosen people. Joshua particularly was a type of Jesus; they agree in their name, which signifies a Saviour the salvation of God, or God the salvation; and in their character, office, and usefulness to the people of God, Jesus is the Lord’s “anointed”; anointed with the Holy Ghost, the oil of gladness, above his fellows, which he received without measure; anointed to the office of Prophet, Priest, and King; and from whom his people receive the unction, and are denominated Christians, or anointed ones: and the “people” of God, for whose salvation he went forth with him, are not all mankind, who are not all saved; nor the people of the Jews only, or all of them; but a peculiar people, out of Jews and Gentiles, loved with a special love; chosen to salvation, secured in the covenant of grace, and given to Christ as his portion and people, and so saved by him, ( Matthew 1:21). The “salvation” of them is a spiritual one, a salvation from all their sins; from the power and dominion, pollution and guilt, the damning power of them, and at last from the very being of them; as well as from Satan, the law, death, hell, and wrath to come: it is perfect and complete, and endures for ever. Jehovah the Father “went forth” with Christ his Son for this salvation, in his purposes and decrees concerning it; in his council and covenant relating to it; in the mission of him into this world to effect it; and by helping and assisting him in it, as man and Mediator. The words may be rendered, “thou wentest forth”; or, “thou goest forth”; thou wilt do so; and mayest thou do so, “to save thy people, to save thy anointed” f139 ; and so respect not the salvation of Israel by Moses or Joshua; nor the spiritual and eternal salvation of God’s elect by the Messiah; but the salvation of the Lord’s people from mystical Babylon, from the oppression and tyranny of antichrist, and from all his false doctrines, superstition, and idolatry, and ruin by them; and particularly the salvation of the two witnesses, the two olive trees, the two anointed ones that stand before the Lord of the whole earth; the singular being put for the plural, “anointed” for “anointed ones”; and so the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint version, and the Arabic version, render it, “thy Christs”, or “thy anointed ones”; now this will be done when the Lord shall go forth in his power and providence, and quicken and raise their dead bodies, when they have lain three days and a half, and shall cause them to ascend to heaven in the sight of their enemies; (see Zechariah 4:14 Revelation 11:3,4,11,12): thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked ; not the princes of the families of the land of Canaan, as some; nor the first born of Pharaoh’s family in Egypt, or him and his host at the Red sea, as, others; nor Goliath of Gath, smitten by David, as Burkius; nor Satan and his principalities and powers by Christ on the cross; but antichrist the man of sin, that wicked and lawless one, who is at the bead of a wicked house or family, the antichristian party; who received a wound at the Reformation; and ere long the kings of the earth will hate the whore, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire; and Christ, will utterly consume and destroy this wicked one with the breath of his mouth, and the brightness of his coming, ( Revelation 13:3 17:16 2 Thessalonians 2:8) (see <19B006> Psalm 110:6). Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret this of the head of the army of wicked Gog, the king of Magog, taking it to belong to future time; and so some render all those phrases, “thou wilt go forth, thou wilt wound” f140 , etc.: by discovering the foundation unto the neck ; or “razing the foundation”, as in ( <19D707> Psalm 137:7). There seems to be a double metaphor in the words, expressing the utter ruin and destruction of antichrist and his party; who, being compared to a building, will be demolished, and razed to the very foundation; that will be dug up, and laid bare, and no trace of an edifice to be seen any more; and, being compared to a human body, will be plunged into such distresses and calamities, as to be as it were up to the neck in them, from whence there is no escape and deliverance. Some understand this of the princes of this head, or of his friends, and those of his family that are nearest to him, as the neck is to the head; or of the whole body of the people under him, of which he will be deprived; and so be as a head without a body, and who cannot long survive them. Selah is added as a mark of attention, something of moment and importance being observed.


Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 3-15 - God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between the Babylonish and Egyptian captivities, naturally presents itself to the mind, as well as the possibility of a like deliverance through the power of Jehovah. God appeared in his glory. All the powers of natur are shaken, and the course of nature changed, but all is for the salvation of God's own people. Even what seems least likely, shall be made to work for their salvation. Hereby is given a type and figure of the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ. It is for salvation with thine anointed. Joshua who led the armies of Israel, was a figure of Him whose name he bare, even Jesus, our Joshua. In all the salvation wrought for them, God looked upon Christ the Anointed, and brough deliverances to pass by him. All the wonders done for Israel of old were nothing to that which was done when the Son of God suffered on the cross for the sins of his people. How glorious his resurrection an ascension! And how much more glorious will be his second coming, to pu an end to all that opposes him, and all that causes suffering to his people!


Original Hebrew

יצאת 3318 לישׁע 3468 עמך 5971 לישׁע 3468 את 853 משׁיחך 4899 מחצת 4272 ראשׁ 7218 מבית 1004 רשׁע 7563 ערות 6168 יסוד 3247 עד 5704 צואר 6677 סלה׃ 5542


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