Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 21:8 : 8 Then the guard cries out:“On the watchtower, O Lord, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.
- Ps 85:8 : 8 I will listen to what God the LORD says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.
- Isa 21:5 : 5 Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
- Isa 21:11-12 : 11 Bad News for Seir This is an oracle about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir,“Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?” 12 The watchman replies,“Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again.”
- Isa 62:6 : 6 I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!
- Jer 12:1 : 1 LORD, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?
- Hab 1:12-17 : 12 Habakkuk Voices Some Concerns LORD, you have been active from ancient times; my sovereign God, you are immortal. LORD, you have made them your instrument of judgment. Protector, you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment. 13 You are too just to tolerate evil; you are unable to condone wrongdoing. So why do you put up with such treacherous people? Why do you say nothing when the wicked devour those more righteous than they are? 14 You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler. 15 The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy. 16 Because of his success he offers sacrifices to his throw net and burns incense to his dragnet; for because of them he has plenty of food, and more than enough to eat. 17 Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?
- 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.
- Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,
- 2 Sam 18:24 : 24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.
- 2 Kgs 9:17 : 17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. He said,“I see troops!” Jehoram ordered,“Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask,‘Is everything all right?’”
- 2 Kgs 17:9 : 9 The Israelites said things about the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.
- Job 23:5-7 : 5 I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me. 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
- Job 31:35 : 35 Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.
- Job 31:37 : 37 I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.
- Ps 5:3 : 3 LORD, in the morning you will hear me; in the morning I will present my case to you and then wait expectantly for an answer.
- Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling to me. 17 Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, and understood the destiny of the wicked.
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1 The Sword of Judgment(21:6) The LORD’s message came to me:
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1 A Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine The LORD’s message came to me:
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7 But I will keep watching for the LORD; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will listen to me.
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5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
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27 The LORD said to me,“I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.”
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32 Then I scrutinized it. I was putting my mind to it– I saw; I took in a lesson:
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17 I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know.
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1 Job’s Confession Then Job answered the LORD:
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2 The LORD’s message came to me:
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