Habakkuk 2:3

The vision is for an appointed time and will surely come without delay, so God's people must wait for it. It calls believers to patient confidence in God's promises even when fulfillment seems slow.

Cross-references · 26

• Ps 27:14Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
• Heb 10:36–37For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Ezek 12:25For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
• Lam 3:25–26Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
• Ps 102:13You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
• Ps 130:5–6I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
• Dan 10:14Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days:
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
• Luke 18:7–8Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
• Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
• Isa 30:18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
• 2 Th 2:6–8Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
• Acts 1:7He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
• Dan 11:35Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
• Dan 8:19He said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
• Jer 25:12–14“It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
• Dan 8:17So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
• Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
• Gal 4:2but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
• Exod 12:41At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
• Luke 2:25Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Dan 11:27As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
• 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• 2 Kgs 6:33While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”
• Jer 27:7All the nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.

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