Habakkuk 2:1

Habakkuk resolves to take his post like a watchman and wait expectantly for God's answer to his complaint. It models patient, attentive faith that brings its questions to God and waits for Him to speak.

Cross-references · 17

• Isa 21:8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
• Isa 62:6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
• 2 Sam 18:24And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
• Ps 85:8I 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.
• Ps 73:16–17When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
• Ps 5:3My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
• 2 Cor 13:3Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
• Jer 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Job 31:37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
• Isa 21:11–12The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
• Job 23:5–7I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
• Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
• Gal 1:16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
• Hab 1:12–17Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
• Isa 21:5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
• 2 Kgs 17:9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
• 2 Kgs 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 an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

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