Habakkuk Bible Quiz with Answers: Challenge Your Scripture Knowledge

Answer 1: B — Habakkuk opens with a desperate cry for God’s attention amid injustice.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 1:2 — “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!”

Answer 2: B — A central truth in Habakkuk and the New Testament’s theology of faith.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:4 — “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.”

Answer 3: C — “Selah” is thought to indicate a pause or moment of reflection, especially in poetry and music.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:3 — “God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.”

Answer 4: C — “Shigionoth” is a musical or poetic term indicating an intense, passionate song. It does not refer to a place, but to the style or mood of Habakkuk’s worshipful prayer.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:1 — “A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.”

Answer 5: C — A heartfelt plea for compassion amid coming judgment.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:2 — “…in wrath remember mercy.”

Answer 6: B — This is part of Habakkuk’s faith-filled wrestling with God’s purposes.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 1:12 — “Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die…”

Answer 7: A — The Chaldeans (Babylonians) were God’s chosen instrument of judgment.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 1:6 — “For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation…”

Answer 8: B — A powerful theological statement about God’s holiness.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 1:13 — “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity…”

Answer 9: C — God commanded clarity and permanence in His message.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:2 — “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”

Answer 10: A — God’s message will be fulfilled at the appointed time.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:3 — “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie…”

Answer 11: D — This describes the self-exalting pride of the Chaldeans.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:9 — “Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high…”

Answer 12: D — This verse gives hope in contrast to the surrounding judgment.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:14 — “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”

Answer 13: C — This metaphor emphasizes divine justice that cannot be silenced.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:11 — “For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.”

Answer 14: A — Habakkuk poetically reflects on God’s mighty acts in history.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:8 — “Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea…?”

Answer 15: B — This describes the nature of the Chaldeans God is raising up.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 1:7 — “They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.”

Answer 16: C — This is the closing declaration of Habakkuk’s triumphant prayer.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:19 — “The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places…”

Answer 17: C — A deeply physical, reverent response to divine revelation.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:16 — “When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones…”

Answer 18: C — This verse calls for reverence and silence before God.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:20 — “But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.”

Answer 19: D — A profound statement of joy in God regardless of circumstances.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:18 — “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”

Answer 20: C — This speaks of insatiable ambition and arrogance.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:5 — “Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man… who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied…”

Answer 21: B — This verse condemns moral corruption and shameful influence.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:15 — “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!”

Answer 22: C — This verse offers a global vision of God’s glory prevailing.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:14 — “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”

Answer 23: D — This verse describes the speed and terror of Babylon’s cavalry.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 1:8 — “Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves…”

Answer 24: C — A poetic image of inescapable judgment.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 2:11 — “For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.”

Answer 25: D — Nature trembles at the presence of the Almighty.
KJV Reference: Habakkuk 3:10 — “The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice…”

Habakkuk teaches us how to wrestle with God in faith, not with rebellion, but with raw honesty. In a world flooded with injustice, he asked, “Why?” And God answered with a vision. Though the answers were hard, Habakkuk ended not in despair, but in a song. This is the journey of every faithful heart: from confusion to clarity, from fear to faith, from questions to worship.