[439] Heb. יסוד, _foundation_. LXX. _bonds_. Some suggest laying bare from the foundation to the neck, but this is mixed unless _neck_ happened to be a technical name for a part of a building: cf. Isa. viii. 8, xxx. 28. [440] Heb. _his spears_ or _staves_; _his own_ (Von Orelli). LXX. ἐν ἐκστάσει: see Sinker, pp. 56 ff. _Princes_: פְרָזָו only here. Hitzig: _his brave ones_. Ewald, Wellhausen, Davidson: _his princes_. Delitzsch: _his hosts_. LXX. κεφαλὰς δυναστῶν. [441] So Heb. literally. A very difficult line. On LXX. see Sinker, pp. 60 f. [442] For חֹמֶר, _heap_ (so A.V.), read some part of חמר, _to foam_. LXX. ταράσσοντας: cf. Psalm xlvi. 4. [443] So LXX. א (some codd.), softening the original _belly_. [444] Or _my lips quiver aloud_—לקול, _vocally_ (Von Orelli). [445] By the Hebrew the bones were felt, as a modern man feels his nerves: Psalms xxxii., li.; Job. [446] For אשר, for which LXX. gives ἡ ἔξις μου, read אשרי, _my steps_; and for ארגז, LXX. ἑταράχθη, ירגזו. [447]‎ אָנוּחַ. LXX. ἀναπαύσομαι, _I will rest_. A.V.: _that I might rest in the day of trouble_. Others: _I will wait for_. Wellhausen suggests אִנָּחֵם (Isa. l. 24), _I will take comfort_. Sinker takes אשר as the simple relative: _I who will wait patiently for the day of doom_. Von Orelli takes it as the conjunction _because_. [448]‎ יְגֻדֶנּוּ, _it invades_, _brings up troops on them_, only in Gen. xlix. 19 and here. Wellhausen: _which invades us_. Sinker: _for the coming up against the people of him who shall assail it_. [449]‎ תפרח; but LXX. תפרה, οὐ καρποφορήσει, _bear no fruit_. [450] For גזר Wellhausen reads נִגזר. LXX. ἐξελιπεν. [451] _De Civitate Dei_, XVIII. 32. [452] So he paraphrases _in the midst of the years_. [453] From the prayer with which Calvin concludes his exposition of Habakkuk. _OBADIAH_ _And Saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be Jehovah’s._ CHAPTER XIII _THE BOOK OF OBADIAH_