Habakkuk 2:20

The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!

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

In Context

19Woe to the person who says to a block, awake! to a dumb stone, arise! What can it teach? It may be set with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all within it.

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Cross References

Psalms 46:10“Refrain; and know surely that I am God, high over the nations, high over the world.”

Psalms 76:9when God arose to judgment to save the oppressed of the earth. Selah

Psalms 132:13For the choice of the Lord is Zion; she is the home of his heart.

Jonah 2:4Then I said, I am driven out, away from your sight; How will I ever again look towards your holy temple?

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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