Habakkuk 2:20

But 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 him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.

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Cross References

Job 37:20Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Psalms 46:10“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted on the earth.”

Psalms 76:9when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

Isaiah 66:1The LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

Jonah 2:4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward 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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