Habakkuk may have completed writing his book about 628 B.C.E., even before Babylon became the dominant world power. For many years Jehovah’s judgment on apostate Jerusalem had been sounded forth.
“ पहारा ” या अर्थाच्या हिब्रू शब्दांचा बऱ्‍याच भविष्यवाण्यांमध्ये वारंवार उल्लेख आढळतो.