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Habakkuk Study Guide

• Focus: honest prayer, YAHUAH’s justice, living by faith, and hope through hardship. </aside>

How to use this guide

• Read the chapter out loud once.
• Read again and answer the questions.
• Pray the prayers provided in your own words.
• Write one takeaway you will obey this week.

Quick background (at a glance)

• Author: Habakkuk
• Setting: Judah, a time of violence and injustice
• Style: A dialogue between the prophet and YAHUAH, ending in worship
• Big idea: When you do not understand what YAHUAH is doing, you can still trust who YAHUAH is.

Key themes to watch for

• Complaint to faith: Habakkuk brings hard questions honestly.
• Justice and timing: YAHUAH’s answers may be surprising, and not immediate.
• Faithfulness: “The righteous shall live by faith.”
• Reverence: “YAHUAH is in His holy temple.”
• Worship in hardship: choosing joy even when circumstances do not change.

Outline (simple)

1. Habakkuk’s first complaint: “Why is there violence and injustice?”
2. YAHUAH’s first answer: “I am at work, even if you cannot see it.”