Usage examples for Habakkuk:

• On the Sunday, Mr. Cope had an elder brother staying with them, who preached on the lesson for the day, the second chapter of the Prophet Habakkuk and when he came to the text, 'Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, ' he brought in some of the like passages, the threats to those that 'grind the faces of the poor, ' that 'oppress the hireling in his wages, ' and that terrible saying of St. James, 'Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. "Friarswood Post-Office" – Charlotte M. Yonge

• 40: 31. Lastly, Habakkuk and Jeremiah speak of the wolves, leopards, and lions, sent to be executioners of divine vengeance. "True Christianity" – Johann Arndt

• By this saying of St Paul, as he taketh up the sentence of the prophet Habakkuk chap. "The Pharisee And The Publican" – John Bunyan