Verse by Verse ExpositionHabakkuk lived in days that were remarkably like the present. It was an age when divine standards were relaxed and gross

permissiveness permitted in human conduct. This attitude on the part of people of Yahweh distressed the prophet. He could see that there was no future in it; that a people of privilege who abandoned the terms of their call faced personal and national tragedy. He pleaded with Yahweh to intervene, and he pleaed not in vain. Yahweh revealed to the prophet the natuare of the coming judgment, and the revelation appalled the prophet. A crisis was impending that would bring the nation to an end: the divine punishment would be decisive and overwhelming.