Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Wo vnto him that sayth to the wood, Awake, and to the dumme stone, Rise vp, it shall teach thee: beholde, it is layde ouer with golde and siluer, and there is no breath in it.

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Cross References

Job 37:20Shall it be told him when I speake? or shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

Psalms 46:10Be still and knowe that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I wil be exalted in the earth.

Psalms 76:9When thou, O God, arose to iudgement, to helpe all the meeke of the earth. Selah.

Psalms 132:13For the Lord hath chosen Zion, and loued to dwell in it, saying,

Isaiah 66:1Thus saith the Lord, The heauen is my throne, and the earth is my footestoole: where is that house that ye will builde vnto me? and where is that place of my rest?

Jonah 2:4Then I saide, I am cast away out of thy sight: yet will I looke againe towarde thine 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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