Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
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2 Kings 9:17Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
Job 23:5I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
Job 31:37I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
Psalms 73:16When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
Psalms 85:9Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
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 →