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Habakkuk 1:5

The New Testament’s use of Habakkuk

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

The Greek the author follows

Behold, ye despisers, and look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish: for I work a work in your days, which ye will in no wise believe, though a man declare it to you.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Acts 13:38-41

'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work you will not believe though one declares it' is quoted verbatim (LXX, 'scoffers/despisers') as the prophetic warning closing the sermon. Explicit citation, maximal volume.

High confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

1 Cor 1:18-25 ?

'I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told' offers a scriptural template for God accomplishing salvation through means the wise reject as incredible. The thematic coherence with the cross as God's unbelievable 'good pleasure' is suggestive, but the verbal link is faint.

Low confidence
John 8:48-59 ?

The prophets dying yet the patriarch's hope of seeing God's 'day' resonates faintly with prophetic 'in your days' announcements of a work to be marveled at. Highly contested and low Volume; included only for maximal coverage of the 'see my day' language.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Habakkuk 1
Habakkuk 1:8 3Habakkuk 1:14-15 2