Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I raise up--not referring to God's having brought the Chaldeans from their original seats to Babylonia (see on Isaiah 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 (2 Chronicles 36:6). The Hebrew is future, "I will raise up."
bitter--that is, cruel (Jeremiah 50:42; compare Judges 18:25, Margin; 1 Samuel 17:8).
hasty--not passionate, but "impetuous."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 1:17
Daniel 7:4
Habakkuk 1:2-3
Habakkuk 2:4
Habakkuk 3:16
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