[365] Chap. i. 5-11. [366] So to bring out the assonance, reading הִתְמַהְמְהוּ וּתִמָהוּ. [367] So LXX. [368] Or Chaldeans; on the name and people see above, p. 19. [369] Heb. singular. [370] Omit ופרשיו (evidently a dittography) and the lame יבאו which is omitted by LXX. and was probably inserted to afford a verb for the second פרשיו. [371] Heb. sing., and so in all the clauses here except the next. [372] A problematical rendering. מגמה is found only here, and probably means _direction_. Hitzig translates _desire_, _effort_, _striving_. קדימה, _towards the front_ or _forward_; but elsewhere it means only _eastward_: קדים, _the east wind_. Cf. Judg. v. 21, נחל קדומים נחל קישון, _a river of spates or rushes is the river Kishon_ (_Hist. Geog._, p. 395). Perhaps we should change פניהים to a singular suffix, as in the clauses before and after, and this would leave מ to form with קדימה a participle from הקדים (cf. Amos ix. 10). [373] Or _their spirit changes_, or _they change like the wind_ (Wellhausen suggests כרוח). Grätz reads כֺּחַ and יַחֲלִיף, _he renews his strength_. [374] Von Orelli. For אשׁם Wellhausen proposes וְיָשִׂם, _and sets_. [375] _The wicked_ of chap. i. 4 must, as we have seen, be the same as _the wicked_ of chap. i. 13—a heathen oppressor of _the righteous_, _i.e._ the people of God. [376] i. 3. [377] i. 4. [378] i. 13-17. [379] Amos iii. 6. See Vol. I., p. 90. [380] See above, pp. 119 ff. [381] Its proper place in Budde’s re-arrangement is after chap. ii. 4. [382] Above, p. 134, n. 362. [383]‎ עֻקְּלָה instead of עֻפְּלָה. [384] Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11. [385]‎ אֱמוּנָה. [386] Exod. xvii. 12. [387] 2 Chron. xix. 9. [388] Hosea ii. 22 (Heb.). [389] Prov. xiv. 5. [390] Isa. xi. 5. [391] Prov. xii. 17: cf. Jer. ix. 2. [392] Prov. xii. 22, xxviii. 30. [393] Heb. x. 37, 38. CHAPTER XI _TYRANNY IS SUICIDE_ HABAKKUK ii. 5-20 In the style of his master Isaiah, Habakkuk follows up his _Vision_ with a series of lyrics on the same subject: chap. ii. 5-20. They are taunt-songs, the most of them beginning with _Woe unto_, addressed to the heathen oppressor. Perhaps they were all at first of equal length, and it has been suggested that the striking refrain in which two of them close— _For men’s blood, and earth’s waste, Cities and their inhabitants_— was once attached to each of the others as well. But the text has been too much altered, besides suffering several interpolations,[394] to permit of its restoration, and we can only reproduce these taunts as they now run in the Hebrew text. There are several quotations (not necessarily an argument against Habakkuk’s authorship); but, as a whole, the expression is original, and there are some lines of especial force and freshness. Verses 5-6_a_ are properly an introduction, the first Woe commencing with 6_b_.