Habakkuk 3:17
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Note d'étude
Study Note
The catalog of agricultural and pastoral failures — no fig blossoms, no grapes, no olive produce, no grain, no flock, no cattle — covers the complete range of subsistence resources in the ancient Levantine economy, making the hypothetical scenario a total material catastrophe. This verse serves as the dark horizon against which Habakkuk's defiant 'yet I will rejoice' (v. 18) shines with maximum theological force: faith in YHWH is tested not by prosperous circumstances but by their complete absence. The literary setting of the vision at Habakkuk's watchpost (2:1) and the prayer-poetry of chapter 3 suggests the prophet has deliberately framed his encounter with theodicy (1:2–4; 1:12–17) within a liturgical conclusion of surrender. The verse has been widely used in Christian pastoral contexts of catastrophic material loss to model faith that refuses to equate divine faithfulness with material provision.
Autres traductions
For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls.
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
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