Hab 1:6 | JFB | STEP | 6. I raise up-- not referring to God's having brought the Chaldeans from their original seats to Babylonia (see on ), for they had already been upwards of twenty years (since Nabopolassar's era) in political power there; but to His being about now to raise them up as the instruments of God's "work" of judgment on the Jews ( ). The Hebrew is future, "I will raise up." bitter-- that is, cruel ( ; compare , Margin; ). hasty-- not passionate, but "impetuous."

‏ Habakkuk 1:6

6. I raise up--not referring to God's having brought the Chaldeans from their original seats to Babylonia (see on Is 23:13), for they had already been upwards of twenty years (since Nabopolassar's era) in political power there; but to His being about now to raise them up as the instruments of God's "work" of judgment on the Jews (2Ch 36:6). The Hebrew is future, "I will raise up."

bitter--that is, cruel (Jr 50:42; compare Jud 18:25, Margin; 2Sa 17:8).

hasty--not passionate, but "impetuous."