Habakkuk 2:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

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  • Isa 21:8 : 8 He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
  • Ps 85:8 : 8 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, For he will speak peace to his people, his saints; But let them not turn again to folly.
  • Isa 21:5 : 5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.
  • Isa 21:11-12 : 11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
  • Isa 62:6 : 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
  • Hab 1:12-17 : 12 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. 17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
  • 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
  • Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,
  • 2 Sam 18:24 : 24 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
  • 2 Kgs 9:17 : 17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. 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 did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
  • Job 23:5-7 : 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me. 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. 7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); Let the accuser write my indictment!
  • Job 31:37 : 37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. As a prince would I go near to him.
  • Ps 5:3 : 3 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I tried to understand this, It was too painful for me; 17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, And considered their latter end.

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