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Habakkuk 2:1

On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do reply to my reproof.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

In Context

2And Jehovah answereth me and saith: 'Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.

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Cross References

2 Kings 9:17And the watchman is standing on the tower in Jezreel, and seeth the company of Jehu in his coming, and saith, 'A company I see;' and Joram saith, 'Take a rider and send to meet them, and let him say, Is there peace?'

Job 23:5I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

Job 31:37The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

Psalms 73:16And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,

Psalms 85:9Only, near to those fearing Him [is] His salvation, That honour may dwell in our land.

Isaiah 21:6For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'

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 →

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