Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth fear before him.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

In Context

19Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Be you exalted! whereas it is an image, and this is a casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

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Cross References

Job 37:20Have I a book or a scribe my me, that I may stand and put man to silence?

Psalms 76:9Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause. 1

Isaiah 66:1Thus says the Lord, + 66:1 Acts 7:49,50 Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will you⌃ build me? and of what kind is to be the place of my rest?

Jonah 2:4You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me.

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 →

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