Gospel Note
After an initial impatient protest against God's obvious failure to act in times of wickedness and perversity, Habbakuk receives a divine word of comfort and affirmation: God will act surely and decisively against the unrighteous. Those who have remained righteous will live by their faith, which here means adherence to the covenant and its demands rather than the New Testament's more profound sense of trust in God's grace.

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