Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy temple: be silent before him all the earth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
In Context
Cross References
Job 37:20Can [all] be related of him, when I speak [ever so much]? or if a man talk [of him] even till he be swallowed up [in death]?
Psalms 46:10(46:11) Leave off, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted on the earth.
Psalms 76:9(76:10) When God rose to judgment, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 132:13For the Lord hath made choice of Zion: he hath desired it as a habitation for himself.
Isaiah 66:1Thus hath said the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is there a house that ye can build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Jonah 2:4(2:5) And I thought indeed, I am driven out from before thy eyes: yet I again shall look toward thy holy temple.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:16-20
Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord 's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the… Read the whole commentary →