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Our chapter opens with: \u201cA prayer of the prophet Habakkuk in the mode of Shigionoth\u201d (1). Targum Yonatan translated the final word into Aramaic as <\/span>shaluta<\/span><\/em>, inadvertence, indicating that he understood it to be related to <\/span>shogeg<\/span><\/em>. Rashi and Kara expanded on that, referring it to Habakkuk\u2019s complaint (in Chapter 2). Eliezer of Beaugency explained:<\/span><\/p>\n

A person ought not to be punished… until he repeats his sin and even augments it. If You [God] are silent [in response] to intentional sinners and traitors in order to obliterate them at the proper time, You should not ignore the inadvertent sinners until their sins and punishment increase and You have to destroy them. Rather, You should inform them of their inadvertence immediately so they repent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibn Ezra, however (and Radak, following), matched <\/span>shigyonot<\/span><\/em> with the word <\/span>shigayon<\/span><\/em> at the opening of Psalm 7 and identified it as a technical term indicating a musical notation. As for the prayer itself, Ibn Ezra states that it was recited on account of the famine alluded to in the close of the chapter (17: \u201cthe fig tree does not bud and no yield is on the vine,: etc.), while Radak casts it into the eschatological future and the war of Gog and Magog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Malbim, displaying his customary literary and linguistic sensitivity (specifically, his recognition of <\/span>selah<\/span><\/i> as a word that appears only here and in Psalms), went yet further:<\/span><\/p>\n

This prayer is divisible into three parts. Part One (1-3) is a prayer for the time of exile, that God should not hide His countenance from his people. it concludes with <\/span>selah<\/span><\/em>. Part Two (4-13) is a prayer for God\u2019s guidance during the exile, and His revelation at the time of redemption, when He will come forth to save His people. it [too] concludes with <\/span>selah<\/span><\/em>. Part Three (14-end) is a prayer for the time that Israel will be devastated, and [in] the throes of the Messianic [Age], giving notice that the troubles will be a portent of the redemption.<\/span><\/p>\n

NB<\/span><\/p>\n

The selection of this chapter to be the haftarah of the second day of Shavuot seems to have been influenced by the reference in v. 3 to Teiman and Har Paran, reminiscent of Dt. 33:2 and Judges 5:4, which are associated, midrashically, with the revelation at Sinai.<\/span><\/p>\n

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