Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I will watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to him that reproveth me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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2 Kings 9:17The watchmen therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all well?
Job 23:5That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
Job 31:37At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.
Psalms 73:16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
Psalms 85:9I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.
Isaiah 21:6For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
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 →