Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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2 Kings 9:17And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And 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 say to me.
Job 31:37I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
Psalms 73:16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Psalms 85:9Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Isaiah 21:6For thus hath the LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare 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 →