Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look out to see what He will speak by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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2 Kings 9:17Now the watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu 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 which 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 go near unto him.
Psalms 73:16And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;
Psalms 85:9(85-10) Surely 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 →