Habakkuk 2:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

I will stand upon my watch, and set myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am corrected.

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  • Isa 21:8 : 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I am stationed in my post every night:
  • Ps 85:8 : 8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak, for He will speak peace unto His people and to His saints, but let them not turn again to folly.
  • Isa 21:5 : 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.
  • Isa 21:11-12 : 11 The prophecy concerning Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire; return, come.
  • Isa 62:6 : 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never be silent day or night: you who remind the LORD, do not keep silent,
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?
  • Hab 1:12-17 : 12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction. 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he? 14 You make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them. 15 They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their portion is sumptuous and their food plentiful. 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
  • 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.
  • Gal 1:16 : 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
  • 2 Sam 18:24 : 24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
  • 2 Kgs 9:17 : 17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw 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?
  • 2 Kgs 17:9 : 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city.
  • Job 23:5-7 : 5 I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Will he contend with me in his great power? No; but he would strengthen me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
  • Job 31:37 : 37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince would I approach Him.
  • Ps 5:3 : 3 In the morning, O LORD, you shall hear my voice; in the morning, I will direct my prayer to you, and will look up.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I thought to understand this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end.

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