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Habakkuk 3:19

Habakkuk 3:19
The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The Lord God is my strength,.... The author and giver of natural and spiritual strength, as he is to all his people; he is the strength of their hearts when ready to faint and sink, and of their…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The Lord God is my strength - The prophet does not inwardly only exult and triumph in God, but he confesses also in words of praise, that in Him he hath all things, that He is All things in him. And…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The Lord God is my strength - This is an imitation, if not a quotation, from Psa 18:32-33 (note), where see the notes.

Will make me to walk upon mine high places - This last verse is spoken in the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Habakkuk 3:16-19

Within the compass of these few lines we have the prophet in the highest degree both of trembling and triumphing, such are the varieties both of the state and of the spirit of God's people in this…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The Lord God is my strength lit. Jehovah, the Lord is, &c. Psa 73:26, "God is the strength of my heart"; Psa 18:32, "The God that girdeth me with strength." The strength is an inward one, confidence…