Footnotes

1. Habakkuk 3:13 tn Heb “anointed one.” In light of the parallelism with “your people” in the preceding line this could refer to Israel, but elsewhere the Lord’s anointed one is always an individual. The Davidic king is the more likely referent here.
2. Habakkuk 3:13 tn Heb “you strike the head from the house of wickedness.”
3. Habakkuk 3:13 tn Heb “laying bare [from] foundation to neck.”
4. Habakkuk 3:14 tn Some take “warriors” with the following line, in which case one should translate, “you pierce [his] head with a spear; his warriors storm forward to scatter us” (cf. NIV). The meaning of the Hebrew term פְּרָזוֹ (p^erazo), translated here “his warriors,” is uncertain.
5. Habakkuk 3:14 tc Heb “his shafts.” Some emend to “your shafts.” The translation above assumes an emendation to מַטֶּה (matteh, “shaft, spear”), the vav-yod (ו-י) sequence being derived from an original he (ה).
6. Habakkuk 3:14 tn Heb “me,” but the author speaks as a representative of God’s people.
7. Habakkuk 3:14 tn Heb “their rejoicing is like devouring the poor in secret.”