“I hear!
My body trembles!
My lips quiver
At the sound.
Rottenness enters
Into my bones.
My steps tremble
Beneath me.
I quietly wait
For the day
Of calamity
To come upon the people
Who attack us.”
Habakkuk was waiting for the eventual defeat of his enemy. However, there would be a battle. Thus, he could hear his body tremble and his lips quivering. There was a certain rottenness in his bones. He was weak kneed as he walked. He was quietly waiting for the day of calamity when his attackers would suffer.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 