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Habakkuk 1 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: How Long, Lord?

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolI Can Talk to God

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenTell God

PRAY → picture 3CRY → picture 1HEAR → picture 4GOD → picture 2

Grade 1Habakkuk Asks

Habakkuk cries out to God. → picture 4Justice was not winning. → picture 3God raises up a fierce nation. → picture 1God is called Rock. → picture 5A net catches fish. → picture 2

Order:

1. Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear2. Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously3. Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One

Grade 2Habakkuk Asks God

  1. Who was Habakkuk? A prophet (circle)
  2. What did Habakkuk see? Many wrong things (circle)
  3. What did Habakkuk ask God? How long? (circle)
  4. Did God answer? Yes (circle)
  5. What did Habakkuk call God? His Rock (circle)
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Grade 3How Long?

  1. What did Habakkuk see around him? Violence and fighting
  2. What did Habakkuk ask? How long will I cry?
  3. What nation would God raise up? The Chaldeans
  4. How long has God been God? From everlasting
  5. Where did Habakkuk bring his questions? To God
1: Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear2: Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously3: Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One
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Grade 4Honest Questions

  1. What makes Habakkuk different from most prophets? He mostly speaks to God rather than to the people.
  2. What is wrong with the law in verse 4? It is paralyzed, and justice never prevails.
  3. What nation does God say he is raising up? The Chaldeans
  4. What does Habakkuk say about God's eyes? He has purer eyes than to see evil.

Word bank: 1. God; 2. long; 3. wonder

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Bringing Complaints to God

  1. What is Habakkuk's first complaint about? Violence and injustice among his own people that God seems not to hear
  2. How does verse 11 describe the Chaldeans? They are guilty, whose strength is their god.
  3. What does Habakkuk affirm about God before his second question? He is from everlasting, the Holy One, the Rock, with purer eyes than to see evil.
  4. What does the fisherman worship in verse 16? His net and dragnet
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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