Tragedy can shake faith in ways that feel permanent. These verses are for the faith that's still hanging on, even barely.
// the word for this moment
“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”
Habakkuk 3:17-18 (KJV)
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”
Job 13:15 (KJV)“But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.”
Lamentations 3:32-33 (KJV)Habakkuk 3:17-18 is the most honest praise in all of Scripture — not praise because things went well, but praise listed alongside total devastation, with a yet that takes everything. That word 'yet' is doing enormous theological work. It doesn't explain the tragedy. It doesn't pretend the fig tree has blossomed. It simply refuses to let the tragedy have the last word over what Habakkuk knows to be true.