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 21:8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
• Isa 62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
• 2 Sam 18:24Now 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.
• Ps 85:8I 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.
• Ps 73:16–17When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
• Ps 5:3Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
• 2 Cor 13:3seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
• Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Job 31:37I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.
• Isa 21:11–12The burden of Dumah. One calls 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 tell me.
• Job 31:35oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
• Gal 1:16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
• Hab 1:12–17Aren’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.
• Isa 21:5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
• 2 Kgs 17:9The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
• 2 Kgs 9:17Now 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?’”

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