Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and mount upon the rock, and watch to see what he will say by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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2 Kings 9:17And there went up a watchman upon the tower of Jezrael, and saw the dust made by Ju as he approached; and he said, I see dust. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send + 9:17 Gr. before them. to meet them, and let him say, Peace.
Job 23:5And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me.
Job 31:37And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:
Psalms 73:16The day is yours, and the night is yours; you have prepared the sun and the moon. 1
Psalms 85:9All nations whom you have made shall come, and shall worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name. 1
Isaiah 21:6For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.
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 →