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 patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
• Heb 10:36–37You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
• Ezek 12:25because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass, declares the Lord GOD.’”
• Lam 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
• Ps 102:13You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
• Ps 130:5–6I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
• Dan 10:14Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
• Luke 18:7–8Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
• Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
• Isa 30:18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
• 2 Th 2:6–8And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
• Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
• Dan 11:35Some of the wise will fall, so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.
• Dan 8:19and said, “Behold, I will make known to you what will happen in the latter time of wrath, because it concerns the appointed time of the end.
• Jer 25:12–14But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
• Dan 8:17As he came near to where I stood, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
• Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
• Gal 4:2He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
• Exod 12:41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
• Luke 2:25Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Dan 11:27And the two kings, with their hearts bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.
• 2 Pet 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
• 2 Kgs 6:33While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
• Jer 27:7All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

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