Habakkuk 1:6

6. I raise up—not referring to God's having brought the Chaldeans from their original seats to Babylonia (see on :-), for they had already been upwards of twenty years (since Nabopolassar's era) in political power there; but to His being about now to raise them up as the instruments of God's "work" of judgment on the Jews (2 Chronicles 36:6). The Hebrew is future, "I will raise up."

bitter—that is, cruel (Jeremiah 50:42; compare Jeremiah 50:42- :, Margin; Jeremiah 50:42- :).

hasty—not passionate, but "impetuous."