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 on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
• Heb 10:36–37For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Ezek 12:25For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
• Lam 3:25–26The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
• Ps 102:13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
• Ps 130:5–6I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
• Dan 10:14Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Luke 18:7–8And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
• Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
• Isa 30:18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
• 2 Th 2:6–8And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
• Acts 1:7And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
• Dan 11:35And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
• Dan 8:19And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
• Jer 25:12–14And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
• Dan 8:17So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
• Acts 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
• Gal 4:2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
• Exod 12:41And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
• Luke 2:25And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• Dan 11:27And both these kings’ 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 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• 2 Kgs 6:33And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
• Jer 27:7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

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