Habbakuk starts off with the cry, "How long, O LORD, will I call for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, 'Violence!' yet You do not save." And then in verse twelve, he asks, "Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One?" Matthew Poole writes the following in regard to Habakkuk's question and in turn, because Habukkuk's God, and mine are the same, I am comforted.
"Before the mountains, Thou was God...Holy in nature, law, and government, in Thy mercies and judgment, intend to make Thy holiness to appear in due time by saving us, though Thou seem to forget or at least delay the work, yet Thou art the Holy One in the midst of us and we wait for Thee. We are Thine, and oppressed, threatened, and exposed to avarice and cruelty [how like now!]; Thou Who has made us Thine by everlasting covenant of mercy, wilt show us such mercy that we shall outlive the rage of our enemies."
"O LORD" says Habakkuk. Mr. Poole continues: "with humble veneration, Habakkuk doth look toward God and discerneth what quietened his spirit and confirms his faith and patience." O, mighty God..."he intimateth God to be His people's rock and refuge!" Like us, Habakkuk's questions do indeed see answers. "We wait for Thee."
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