Habakkuk Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.In the opening of the book, what does the prophet cry out because of the violence he sees?
- A. O LORD, how long shall I cry? ✓
- B. Why hast thou forsaken me?
- C. Woe is me for my hurt!
- D. How long, O LORD, holy and true?
Answer: O LORD, how long shall I cry?
Habakkuk begins by lamenting that he cries out of violence and the Lord will not save.
Q2.Which nation did the LORD say He would raise up to execute judgment?
- A. The Egyptians
- B. The Chaldeans ✓
- C. The Assyrians
- D. The Edomites
Answer: The Chaldeans
The LORD describes them as a bitter and hasty nation.
Q3.How does the LORD describe the eyes of the Holy One of Israel?
- A. As a flame of fire
- B. Searching the hearts of men
- C. Of purer eyes than to behold evil ✓
- D. Beholding the evil and the good
Answer: Of purer eyes than to behold evil
Habakkuk acknowledges that God is of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on iniquity.
Q4.Where did Habakkuk say he would stand to watch and see what the LORD would say?
- A. Upon the temple mount
- B. In the valley of vision
- C. Upon my watch ✓
- D. In the secret place
Answer: Upon my watch
The prophet set himself upon the tower to watch for the LORD's answer.
Q5.What instruction did the LORD give Habakkuk regarding the vision?
- A. Seal it up until the end
- B. Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables ✓
- C. Tell it not in Gath
- D. Speak it into the ears of the princes
Answer: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables
The vision was to be made plain so that he may run that readeth it.
Q6.According to Habakkuk 2:4, how shall the just live?
- A. By his works
- B. By his faith ✓
- C. By the law
- D. By the mercy of God
Answer: By his faith
This famous verse declares that 'the just shall live by his faith.'
Q7.With what shall the earth be filled, as the waters cover the sea?
- A. The judgment of the LORD
- B. The knowledge of the glory of the LORD ✓
- C. The seed of Abraham
- D. The righteousness of the saints
Answer: The knowledge of the glory of the LORD
The scripture promises the earth will be filled with the knowledge of His glory.
Q8.Where is the LORD, such that all the earth should keep silence before Him?
- A. In the highest heaven
- B. In his holy temple ✓
- C. In the midst of the fire
- D. Upon the throne of David
Answer: In his holy temple
Habakkuk 2:20 states, 'But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.'
Q9.In his prayer, what does Habakkuk ask the LORD to remember in the midst of wrath?
- A. His covenant
- B. Mercy ✓
- C. The poor
- D. The city of Jerusalem
Answer: Mercy
The prophet prays, 'in wrath remember mercy.'
Q10.Even if the fig tree shall not blossom, in whom will Habakkuk rejoice?
- A. The God of my salvation ✓
- B. The King of kings
- C. The Lord of hosts
- D. The Rock of ages
Answer: The God of my salvation
Habakkuk concludes with a song of trust, rejoicing in the God of his salvation.