Habakkuk wrestled with the LORD over the rise of the Chaldean (Babylonian) empire. How could God use so wicked an instrument to chasten His own people? The third chapter of his short book is a theophanic prayer-poem of extraordinary power: 'God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendour covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. His brightness was like the light, rays flashed from his hand... He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered, the everlasting hills bowed down.'
Habakkuk's deuterocanonical addition (Daniel 14:33–39 in the Greek text) tells the story of his miraculous transport: while preparing a meal for the reapers, Habakkuk was caught up by an angel by the hair of his head and carried instantly from Judea to Babylon to bring food to Daniel in the lions' den, then returned the same day. The text gives Habakkuk a personal connection to two of the great miracle-cycles of the OT — the Babylonian exile and the Daniel narratives.