Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand on my watch-tower, And set myself on the bulwark, And watch to see what he will say to me, And what I shall answer to my expostulation.
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Job 23:5I should know what he would answer me, And understand what he would say to me.
Job 31:37I would disclose to him all my steps; I would approach him like a prince.
Psalms 73:16So, when I studied to know this, It was painful to my eyes;
Psalms 85:9Yea, his salvation is near to those who fear him, That glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For thus said the Lord unto me: “Go, set a watchman, Who shall declare what he seeth.”
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 →