OLD TESTAMENT

Habakkuk 1:12

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12

Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

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Verse 12. Die? We hope that this scourge will not entirely ruin us.—Correction, like Pharao. Exodus 9:16.

EXPLANATION

The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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