Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand firm during my watch, and fix my position over the fortification. And I will observe carefully, to see what might be said to me and what I might respond to my opponent.
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2 Kings 9:17And so the watchman, who was standing upon the tower of Jezreel, saw the crowd of Jehu arriving, and he said, “I see a crowd.” And Joram said: “Take a chariot, and send to meet them. And those who go should say, ‘Is everything well?’”
Job 23:5so that I may know the words that he will answer me and understand what he will say to me.
Job 31:37With each of my steps, I would pronounce and offer it, as if to a prince.
Psalms 73:16Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.
Psalms 85:9All the nations, which you have made, will draw near and adore in your presence, O Lord. And they will glorify your name.
Isaiah 21:6For the Lord has said this to me: “Go and station a watchman. And let him announce whatever he will see.”
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:1
In this chapter we have an answer expected by the prophet ( ver. 1 ), and returned by the Spirit of God, to the complaints which the prophet made of the violences and victories of the Chaldeans in the close of the foregoing chapter. The answer is, I. That after God has served his own purposes by the prevailing power of the Chaldeans, has tried the faith and patience of his people, and distinguished between the hypocrites and the sincere among them, he will reckon with the Chaldeans, will humble and bring down, not… Read the whole commentary →