קבלה אויף חבקוק 3:1

AND IT CAME TO PASS WHEN PHARAOH SENT AWAY THE PEOPLE, ETC R. Simeon discoursed here on the verse: “A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon shigionoth” (Hab. 3, 1). ‘Why’, he said, ‘is this vision of Habakkuk designated “prayer”, a title unique in the prophetic writings? Why do we find only a prayer of Habakkuk and not of Isaiah or Jeremiah?

his prophetic utterance took the form of a prayer, as issuing from the place to which he was first attached; and it was “upon shigionoth” (lit. errors), because the day on which his birth was announced was New Year’s day, when the “errors” of mankind are judged by the Almighty.

“Why is it written, a prayer of the prophet Habakkuk [upon shigeonot] (Hab. 3:1)?