Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand vpon my watch, and set me vpon the towre, and wil looke and see what he would say vnto mee, and what I shall answere to him that rebuketh me.
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2 Kings 9:17And the watchman that stoode in the towre in Izreel spyed the companie of Iehu as hee came, and sayd, I see a companie. And Iehoram said, Take a horseman and send to meete them, that hee may say, Is it peace?
Job 23:5I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.
Job 31:37I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.
Psalms 73:16Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,
Psalms 85:9Surely his saluation is neere to them that feare him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For thus hath the Lord said vnto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell 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 →