God’s reply to Habakkuk’s perplexity is puzzling. He tells Habakkuk that he will punish wicked Judah by using the Babylonians (or Chaldeans). Since the Neo-Babylonian Empire would not be a force to be reckoned with until the latter part of the seventh century BC, such a threat seems totally unbelievable. In fact, although full judgment would not descend on Judah and Jerusalem for more than half a century, Habakkuk is being told that those forces that will spell their doom are already being set in motion. Whether Habakkuk lived to see the rise of the Chaldeans is not known, but Manasseh’s summons to Babylon (2 Chron. 33:11) would doubtless serve as a harbinger of Babylon’s later dealings with the people of God. The pronoun “your” with the noun “days” is plural and there…