Habakkuk 2:3
For yet the vision [is] for a season, || And it breathes for the end, and does not lie, || If it lingers, wait for it, || For surely it comes, it is not late.
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Numbers 23:19God [is] not a man—and lies, || And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do [it]? And spoken—and He does not confirm it?
Psalms 27:14Look to YHWH—be strong, || And He strengthens your heart, || Indeed, look to YHWH!
Psalms 130:5I hoped [for] YHWH—my soul has hoped, || And I have waited for His word.
Isaiah 30:18And therefore YHWH waits to favor you, || And therefore He is exalted to pity you, || For YHWH [is] a God of judgment, || O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
Jeremiah 27:7and all the nations have served him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the coming in of the time of his land, also it; and many nations and great kings have made him serve them.
Lamentations 3:26[It is] good when one stays and stands still || For the salvation of YHWH.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:2-5
Waiting upon God; The People Directed. ( b. c. 600.) 1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 4 Behold, his soul which is… Read the whole commentary →