Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer as to my reproof.
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2 Kings 9:17And the watchman stood on the tower in Jizreel, and saw Jehu's company as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
Job 23:5I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Job 31:37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
Psalms 73:16When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
Psalms 85:9Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
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 →