Habakkuk for our times:
Habakkuk: Yahweh God, my people are not down with doing what You ask. They're making the courts unjust. There's lots of violence and mistreatment happening
YHWH: Chill. I got something for them, the Chaldeans [Babylonians].
Hab: Not the Chaldeans, Yahweh. Do you know what those jokers are like? They're really cruel. They are total jerks. You're too holy to tolerate that nonsense. Well, I'll just stay on alert ⚠️ until You get back with me.
YHWH: OH, I've got something for the Chaldeans later on. Prepare to be amazed.
Oh, and the righteous person will live by his faith. Trust Me, in about 650 years, a guy named Paul is REALLY going to like quoting that. Sorry, but he's not going to credit you for writing that down.
Hab: Cool. I'll keep in mind to praise you, even when everything goes all to heck. You'll strengthen my faith so I can leap joyfully around the slippery mountain rockfaces like a sure-footed deer. And I'm okay with that Paul thing. I think that leaping like a deer 🦌 quote might circulate. Something poetic like "hind's feet in high places." Well, if I still don't get credit for that quote, "yet will I rejoice in Yahweh; I will be joyful in God my Savior."
And I won't resent my parents naming me Habakkuk, which will probably keep people from crediting my quotes to me. I feel a song coming on! [Fade out as a stringed group plays a riff.]
A link to an original translation of part of Habakkuk's song:
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