Habakkuk 3:17-19--Habakkuk Rejoices in the LORD

Habakkuk 3:17-19
English Standard Version

Habakkuk Rejoices in the LORD
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
    nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
    and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
    and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD;
    I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
19 God, the LORD, is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the deer's;
    he makes me tread on my high places.

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

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This will end our study of the book of Habakkuk.  He ends by saying that even if bad and hard times come (the judgment that the LORD pronounced), and all the things that were seen as blessings under the covenant turn to the things recognized as curses under the covenant, he will still rejoice in the LORD.  Though circumstances may change, it is because the people have changed, not because the LORD has changed.  He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He will always be worthy of our worship, honor, and praise.  He is our strength and our song and our salvation.  That has not changed.  He helps us to make it through the rough and treacherous places in life, like a deer that skips across the loose rocks on the top of the mountain.  The high places that He calls us to climb are lonely and desolate, but He is with us all the way, and for this we praise Him and wait to see how He will orchestrate things to be, for He is still in control of all things.