Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
I trembled at the news of coming calamities; my lips quivered, my bones felt rottenness, I had no strength left. Yet I was touched with tender concern for the church's trials, and I trembled not from cowardice but from fear of God's judgments. In heaven there shall be no more trembling, but everlasting triumphs.
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Commenting on Habakkuk 3:16-19
Though trembling at what approaches, I will exult in the Lord, for God is the inexhaustible source and infinite sphere of my joy, He is the God of my salvation who rises to judgment upon the nations to procure the salvation of His people. He gives me strength to overcome all tribulation and makes my feet swift as the hinds, a figure for the fresh and joyous strength acquired in God alone.
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Commenting on Habakkuk 3:18-19
The Lord God supplies the strength of His people, their hearts, their graces, their very lives. The church in distress believed that Christ's strength would be made perfect in her weakness and uphold her through all trials. Swift feet like hinds' feet mean Christians will run cheerfully in Christ's commandments, unobstructed by the difficulties that lie in their way.
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