Habakkuk 2:1
Upon my watch-tower, will I stand, and will station myself upon the bulwark,—so will I keep outlook, to see—what he will speak with me, and what I shall reply, when I am reproved.
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2 Kings 9:17Now, the watchman, was standing upon the tower, in Jezreel, so he saw the great company of Jehu, when he came, and said—A great company, can I see! Then said Jehoram—Take a horseman and send to meet them, that he may say—Is it peace?
Job 23:5I would note the words wherewith he would respond to me, and would mark what he would say to me.
Job 31:37The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.
Psalms 73:16When I reasoned, that I might understand this, A vexation, it was in mine eyes:
Psalms 85:9Surely, near unto them who revere him, is his salvation, That the Glory, may settle down, in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For, thus, hath My Lord said unto me,—Go, set the watchman, What he seeth, let him tell!
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 →