Habakkuk 3:2

² O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #227

227. Internal Meaning of Habakkuk, Chapter 3

1-4 Prediction that the Lord will come into the world, to whom belongs Divine truth and good. (1, 11)

5-7 He will examine the church; it is not a church. (3)

8-9 He will by His Divine truth dissipate the falsities of evil. (3)

10-15 Judgment upon them, combat with them, their destruction, and their being cast into hell. (15)

16-17 Grief on account of their state, that there is no longer anything of the church. (3)

18-19 Then those who at heart acknowledge the Lord will be saved. (17)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.