Habakkuk

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, and there be no fruit on the vines … yet I will exult in the Lord” (3:17-18). Habakkuk saw, in distress, that Babylon was coming to invade Judah (1:6). God was going to withdraw His protection because the Israelites had withdrawn their loyalty to Him. Yet, Habakkuk was comforted by another vision (3:13) of a future in which God would return to His people and rescue them.

Habakkuk’s trust, despite the coming catastrophe, was not in “a dumb stone” (2:19), but in the living God who remembers mercy (3:2).