A paraphrasticall explication of the twelve minor prophets. Viz. Hoseah. Joel. Amos. Obadiah. Jonah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Haggai. Zechariah. Malachi. / By Da. Stokes. D.D.

CHAP. III.

A Prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet upon Si∣gionoth.

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 Te∣mon, and the holy one from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

4 And his brightnesse was as the light, he had horns coming out of his hand, and there was the hiding of his power.

5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

6 He stood and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations, and the everlasting moun∣tains were scattered, the perpetuall hills did bow: his waies are everlasting.

7 I saw the tents of Cu∣shan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Mi∣di••n did tremble.

8 Was the Lord displea∣sed against the rivers? was thine anger against the ri∣vers? was thy wrath a∣gainst the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses, and thy chariots of salva∣tion?

9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oathes of the tribes, e∣ven thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep ut∣tered his voice, and lift

up his hands on high.

11 The sun and moon stood still in their habita∣tion: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

12 Thou didst march through the land in indig∣nation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy peo∣ple, even for salvation with thine anointed, thou wound∣est the head out of the house of the wicked, by discover∣ing the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

14 Thou didst strike tho∣rough with his st••ves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirl-wind to scatter me: their rejoy∣cing was as to devour the poor secretly.

15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

16. When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips qui∣vered at the voice: rotten∣nesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my self, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troups.

17 Although the fig-tree shall not blossome, neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labour of the olive shall fall, and the fields shall yeild no meat, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

18 Yet I will rejoyce in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

19 The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds feet; and he will make me to walk up∣on mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.