yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
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yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
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Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
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Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will exult in the God of my salvation.
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Passages linked to Habakkuk 3:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 13:15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
- Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
- Micah 7:7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Romans 5:2-3 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
- Psalms 25:5 Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
- Psalms 46:1-5 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
- Psalms 118:14-15 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
- Luke 1:46-47 Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
- 1 Peter 1:8 whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
- Exodus 15:2 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- 1 Samuel 2:1 Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
- Psalms 27:1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalms 97:12 Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.
- Luke 2:30 for my eyes have seen your salvation,
- 1 Peter 4:12-13 Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
- Psalms 33:1 Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.
- Psalms 85:6 Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
- Isaiah 41:16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- James 1:2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
- Psalms 104:34 Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
- Psalms 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
- James 1:9-10 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
- Deuteronomy 12:18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
- Zechariah 10:7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He declareth wherein standeth the comfort and joy of…
He declareth wherein standeth the comfort and joy of the faithful, though they see never so great afflictions prepared.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Hab 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD,…
Hab 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Ver. 18. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation] This joy of the Lord was the prophet s strength, and kept his head above all waters of affliction, Neh 8:10. So it was David’s at the sack of Ziklag, 1Sa 30:6, when Saul at the same time for want of it ran first to the witch, and thence to the sword’s point. A good man hath God for his portion; and if any occasion of discontent or trouble befall him he retireth into his counting house, and there seeth himself so well stored with unlosable graces and invaluable privileges that he cannot be greatly moved, Psa 62:2. His soul in greatest straits can magnify the Lord, and his spirit rejoice in God his Saviour. Disquieted he may be sometimes for a season, till he hath recollected and better bethought himself. We are staggering, saith the apostle, but not wholly sticking, 2Co 4:8, for not the evenest weights but at their first putting into the balance do somewhat sway both parts thereof, not without some show of inequality, which yet after some little motion do settle themselves in a meet poise and posture.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As for my part, I will, saith the prophet,…
As for my part, I will, saith the prophet, rejoice; look for joy, expect matter of rejoicing
in the Lord, who will preserve a remnant and redeem them, who will rebuke Babylon, and will very strangely destroy it.
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I will joy in the God of my salvation: the prophet renews his own faith, and confirms ours. All shall end in salvation to him and believers.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,.... In the…
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,.... In the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; the essential Word of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ; in his person, the greatness and glory of it; in his offices, as Prophet, Priest, and King, the only Mediator and Saviour; in his relations, as head and husband, father, brother, friend; in his fulness, grace, and righteousness; in his spiritual presence, and comfortable communion with him, which may be expected in a remarkable manner after the above day of trouble is over; and in his personal appearance, which will shortly be, and when his tabernacle will be with men on earth:
I will joy in the God of my salvation; in Christ, who is God, and so able to save his people; to make everything he did and suffered in human nature effectual and available to them; to supply all their wants, and to keep what they commit unto him, and to preserve them safe to his kingdom and glory: and who also joy in the salvation of their God, or which he is the author of, both temporal and spiritual, especially the latter; which is so great and glorious in itself, so suitable to their case, so complete and perfect, and makes so much for the glory of all the divine perfections, and is all of free grace, and lasts for ever: this salvation is peculiar to the people of God; it is theirs, and theirs only; it is what they choose and prefer to all other ways of salvation; it is brought and applied to them by the Spirit, and which they appropriate to themselves under his witnessings; and then it is they can and do rejoice: particularly salvation and deliverance from antichristianism, in all the branches of it, may be chiefly pointed at as the matter and ground of joy; and the enjoyment of Gospel privileges in the full extent of them; the word and ordinances in their power and purity; and the presence of Christ in them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will…
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. - The words are very impressive, as they stand in the Hebrew. “For,” he says, “the fig tree shall not blossom, and there is no fruit in the vines, the labor of the olive hath failed;” (the prophet does not look on, only to these things, but in his mind stands in the midst of them, they are done, and he amid them, feeling their effects) “and the field hath yielded no food; the flock hath been cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stall; and I.” He relates it as the result of all which had gone before; such and such was the state of fruit-trees, vintage, harvest, flocks and herds; such was the aspect of all nature, living or inanimate; all was barren, disappointing; all had failed and was gone; and then at last he comes to himself, and I; what is he doing, when all nature and every seeming hope is dead? thus and thus it is with them; and I will rejoice.
He almost uses the expression as to the exultation of the enemy, adopting the same word only in a softer form. “Their exulting joy was” concentrated in this, “as to devour the poor secretly;” he too had “exulting joy.” There is a joy against joy - a joy of theirs in the possession of all which their rapacity covets, in the possession of all things: a joy of his amid the privation of all things. He contrasts the two joys, as David had of old; Psa 17:13, Psa 17:15 : “the men of the world, whose portion is in this life, whose belly Thou fillest with Thy hid treasure; they are sated of children and leave their substance to their babes: I,” he adds, “I shall behold Thy Presenee in righteousness, I shall be sated, in the awakening, with Thine image.” So Habakkuk, “I will not rejoice only, but shout for joy;” and not so only, but “I will bound for joy;” and this not for a time only; both words express a drawing, yearning of the soul, and this yet more and more, “I will shout for joy and would shout on; I will bound for joy and would bound on.”
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But whence the source of this measureless unutterable joy? In the Lord, the Unchangeable God, “who is and was and is to come,” I am (it is the incommunicable Name); in the God of my salvation: it is almost the Name of Jesus; for jesus is salvation, and the Name means “the Lord is Salvation;” whence the words are here rendered even by a Jew “in God the Author of my redemption,” and yet more sweetly by a father. Augustine, de Civ. D. xviii. 32: “To me what some manuscripts have; ‘I will rejoice in God my Jesus,’ seems better than what they have, who have not set the Name itself (but saving) which to us it is more loving and sweeter to name.”) “in God my Jesus.” In Him his joy begins, to Him and in Him it flows back and on; before he ventures, amid all the desolation, to speak of joy, he names the Name of God, and, as it were, stays himself in God, is enveloped and wrapped round in God; sad I (the words stand in this order) “and I in the Lord would shout for joy.”
He comes, as it were, and places himself quite close to God, so that nothing, not even his joy should be between himself and God; “and I in the Lord.” All creation, as it had failed, ceases to be; all out of God: he speaks of nothing but himself and God, or rather himself in God; and as He, God, comes before his joy, as its source, so in Him does he lose himself, with joy which cannot be contained, nor expressed, nor rest, but utters itself in the glad motions of untiring love. “I would bound for joy in my Saving God.” Truly all our joy is, to be in Him in whom is all Good, who is all Goodness and all Love.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Jesus. Hebrew yishi, "my (Haydock) salvation." (Calmet) --- Septuagint,…
Jesus. Hebrew yishi, "my (Haydock) salvation." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "saviour." Chaldean, "redeemer." (Haydock) --- Jesus was the desire of all nations, and he imparts true joy to the faithful, John viii. 56. (Calmet) --- At the last day, plagues similar to those of Egypt will occur; but the elect shall rejoice. (St. Jerome)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain yet I will rejoice--The prophet speaks in the name…
yet I will rejoice--The prophet speaks in the name of his people.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord] Comp.…
18. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord] Comp. Psa_5:11; Psa_32:11; Psa_33:1; Isa_61:10. In spite of calamities the people will joy in God; though earthly blessings perish He remains their portion. The joy is partly a present one in the possession of God, as Psa_73:23, “Nevertheless I am continually with thee”; and partly one of hope in His salvation; Psa_18:46; Mic_7:7; Isa_17:12 ff.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) Yet—i.e., in spite of all the afflictions predicted…
(18) Yet—i.e., in spite of all the afflictions predicted in Hab_3:17. We are reminded of St. Paul’s expression of confidence in Rom_8:37.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 18, 195. In spite of the terror produced…
Vers. 18, 195. In spite of the terror produced by these judgments, the true Israelite is blessed with hope of salvation and joy in the Lord.
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. Unshaken in confidence, the prophet, representing the faithful Israelite, expresses his unbounded joy at the prospect of salvation which opens to him beyond the present affliction. The psalmist often thus shews his exulting faith. (see Psa_5:7 Psa_13:6 Psa_17:14, 15 31:19) I will joy. I will shout for joy; my joy shall express itself outwardly. The God of my salvation. (see note on Mic_7:7) The God who judges the nations to procure the final salvation of his people. Septuagint, Tw Qew tw swthri mou, "God my Saviour;" Vulgate, In Deo Jesu meo. From this gloss of St. Jerome some of the Fathers have argued for the existence in this passage of a revelation of the incarnation of Christ and the redemption wrought by him.
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Habakkuk continues to describe his reaction to his vision of Yahweh and determines to praise him.
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the God of my salvation
The word "salvation" can be translated with a verb. AT: "the God who saves me" (See: Abstract Nouns)
he makes my feet like the deer's. He makes me go forward on my high places
Habakkuk speaks of Yahweh keeping him safe and enabling him to survive during difficult times as if Yahweh were to make him as sure-footed as a deer that can climb easily on rugged and dangerous mountain sides. (See: Metaphor)
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