Passage
O Lord, I haue heard thy voyce, and was afraide: O Lord, reuiue thy worke in the mids of the people, in the mids of the yeeres make it knowen: in wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3:2 (GNV)
Nearby Context
Habakkuk 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet for the ignorances.
Habakkuk 3:2 O Lord, I haue heard thy voyce, and was afraide: O Lord, reuiue thy worke in the mids of the people, in the mids of the yeeres make it knowen: in wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3:3 God commeth from Teman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. His glory couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse,
Habakkuk 3:4 And his brightnes was as the light: he had hornes comming out of his hands, and there was the hiding of his power.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "mercy", "lord", "haue", "heard", "voyce", "afraide", "reuiue", and "worke". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "mercy" and "lord", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "A prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet for..." into verse 3's "God commeth from Teman and the holy...", so "mercy" and "lord" belong inside that flow. In Habakkuk context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "mercy" and "lord" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.