Thou hast gone forth for the salvation of Thy people, For salvation with Thine anointed, Thou hast smitten the head of the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation unto the neck. Pause!Habakkuk 3:13 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThou 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, משיחך 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 משיחיך 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, עד צואר ad tsavvar? Several critics read עד צור 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, א aleph, from the word צוער, 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.
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Exodus 14:13,14 And Moses said to the people, Fear you not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you to day...
Exodus 15:1,2 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing to the LORD...
Psalm 68:7,19-23 O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah...
with.
Psalm 77:20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 89:19-21 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty...
Psalm 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call on his name; they called on the LORD, and he answered them.
Psalm 105:15,26 Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm...
Isaiah 63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying...
thou woundedst.
Exodus 12:29,30 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt...
Joshua 10:11,24,42 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron...
Joshua 11:8,12 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to Misrephothmaim...
Psalm 18:37-45 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed...
Psalm 68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
Psalm 74:13,14 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters...
Psalm 110:6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
discovering. Heb. making naked.
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