Habakkuk 2:1
Upon my watch will I stand, and place myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer to my reproof.
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2 Kings 9:17And the watchman stood on the tower in Yizre'el, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came; and he said, A company do I see, And Jehoram said, Take a horseman, and send out to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
Job 23:5I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.
Job 31:37The number of my steps would I tell him: as [to] a prince would I go near unto him.—
Psalms 73:16And when I should think to know this, it would be trouble in my eyes;
Psalms 85:9(85:10) Surely, nigh is his salvation unto those that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For thus hath said unto me the Lord, Go, set the watchman, what he seeth 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 →