Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
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In Context
2The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
Cross References
2 Kings 9:17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
Job 23:5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
Job 31:37I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.
Psalms 73:16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
Psalms 85:9Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare 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 →