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Habakkuk Chapter 2

Habakkuk
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Habakkuk

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Habakkuk continues his cry to God for justice, describing the wickedness of the nations and God's judgment. God answers by revealing the names of the nations and the time of their destruction, showing that God is righteous and will act. The chapter emphasizes God's sovereignty and the futility of human rebellion.

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(1) I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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Psalms 73:16Psalms 73:17Isaiah 21:8Isaiah 21:11Isaiah 21:12II Samuel 18:24II Kings 9:17II Kings 17:9Isaiah 21:5Isaiah 62:6Habakkuk 1:12Habakkuk 1:13

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Judges 7:19Psalms 130:6Luke 12:38II Chronicles 20:24Nehemiah 7:3Luke 21:36

(2) And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
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Deuteronomy 27:8Deuteronomy 31:19Deuteronomy 31:22Isaiah 8:1Isaiah 30:8Jeremiah 36:2Jeremiah 36:3Jeremiah 36:4Jeremiah 36:27Jeremiah 36:28Jeremiah 36:29Jeremiah 36:30

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Exodus 34:1II Samuel 18:23Ezekiel 43:3I Corinthians 9:24Deuteronomy 10:2I John 2:13

(3) For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
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Jeremiah 27:7Daniel 8:19Daniel 9:24Daniel 9:25Daniel 9:26Daniel 9:27Daniel 10:1Daniel 10:14Daniel 11:27Daniel 11:35Acts 1:7Acts 17:26

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Jeremiah 44:25Daniel 8:19Judges 19:9Jeremiah 30:11Ezekiel 43:3Ruth 3:13

(4) Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
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Job 40:11Job 40:12Daniel 4:30Daniel 4:37Daniel 5:20Daniel 5:21Daniel 5:22Daniel 5:23Luke 18:14II Thessalonians 2:4I Peter 5:5John 3:36

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Romans 1:17Galatians 2:20Leviticus 19:36Romans 14:8Galatians 3:11Hebrews 10:38

(5) Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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Proverbs 20:1Proverbs 23:29Proverbs 23:30Proverbs 23:31Proverbs 23:32Proverbs 23:33Proverbs 31:4Proverbs 31:5Isaiah 5:11Isaiah 5:12Isaiah 5:22Isaiah 5:23

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Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17

(6) Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
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Numbers 23:7Numbers 23:18Isaiah 14:4Isaiah 14:5Isaiah 14:6Isaiah 14:7Isaiah 14:8Isaiah 14:9Isaiah 14:10Isaiah 14:11Isaiah 14:12Isaiah 14:13

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Matthew 11:21Revelation 8:13

(7) Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
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Proverbs 29:1Isaiah 13:1Isaiah 13:2Isaiah 13:3Isaiah 13:4Isaiah 13:5Isaiah 13:16Isaiah 13:17Isaiah 13:18Isaiah 21:2Isaiah 21:3Isaiah 21:4

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Judges 5:12Psalms 57:8Isaiah 51:9

(8) Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
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Habakkuk 2:10Habakkuk 2:17Isaiah 33:1Isaiah 33:4Jeremiah 27:7Jeremiah 30:16Jeremiah 50:10Jeremiah 50:37Jeremiah 51:13Jeremiah 51:44Jeremiah 51:48Jeremiah 51:55

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Habakkuk 2:17Ezekiel 12:19Revelation 10:6Isaiah 33:1Jeremiah 47:4

(9) Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
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Genesis 13:10Genesis 13:11Genesis 13:12Genesis 13:13Genesis 19:26Genesis 19:27Genesis 19:28Genesis 19:29Genesis 19:30Genesis 19:31Genesis 19:32Genesis 19:33

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Revelation 8:13

(10) Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
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II Kings 9:26II Kings 10:7Isaiah 14:20Isaiah 14:21Isaiah 14:22Jeremiah 22:30Jeremiah 36:31Nahum 1:14Matthew 27:25Numbers 16:38I Kings 2:23Proverbs 1:18

(11) For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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Genesis 4:10Joshua 24:27Job 31:38Job 31:39Job 31:40Luke 19:40Hebrews 12:24James 5:3James 5:4Revelation 6:10

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II Kings 12:12Isaiah 28:16II Chronicles 26:6

(12) Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
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Genesis 4:11Genesis 4:12Genesis 4:13Genesis 4:14Genesis 4:15Genesis 4:16Genesis 4:17Joshua 6:26I Kings 16:34Jeremiah 22:13Jeremiah 22:14Jeremiah 22:15

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Revelation 8:13

(13) Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
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Genesis 11:6Genesis 11:7Genesis 11:8Genesis 11:9II Samuel 15:31Job 5:13Job 5:14Psalms 39:6Psalms 127:1Psalms 127:2Proverbs 21:30Isaiah 41:5

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Jeremiah 51:58Ecclesiastes 4:8Ecclesiastes 9:9Zechariah 1:3Ecclesiastes 1:2

(14) For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
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Psalms 22:27Psalms 67:1Psalms 67:2Psalms 72:19Psalms 86:9Psalms 98:1Psalms 98:2Psalms 98:3Isaiah 6:3Isaiah 11:9Zechariah 14:8Zechariah 14:9

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Isaiah 11:9Ezekiel 47:4

(15) Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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Genesis 19:32Genesis 19:33Genesis 19:34Genesis 19:35II Samuel 11:13II Samuel 13:26II Samuel 13:27II Samuel 13:28Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 51:7Revelation 17:2Revelation 17:6

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Deuteronomy 30:20Revelation 3:18Leviticus 18:7Leviticus 18:10Leviticus 20:17Revelation 8:13

(16) Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
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Proverbs 3:35Isaiah 47:3Hosea 4:7Philippians 3:19Psalms 75:8Isaiah 49:26Isaiah 51:21Isaiah 51:22Isaiah 51:23Jeremiah 25:26Jeremiah 25:27Jeremiah 51:57

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Ezekiel 23:33I Corinthians 10:21Genesis 40:11

(17) For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
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Zechariah 11:1Habakkuk 2:8Psalms 55:23Psalms 137:8Proverbs 28:17Revelation 18:20Revelation 18:21Revelation 18:22Revelation 18:23Revelation 18:24Jeremiah 50:28Jeremiah 50:33

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Habakkuk 2:8Ezekiel 12:19Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6Isaiah 59:6Jeremiah 6:7

(18) What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
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Isaiah 37:38Isaiah 42:17Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 44:10Isaiah 45:16Isaiah 45:20Isaiah 46:1Isaiah 46:2Isaiah 46:6Isaiah 46:7Isaiah 46:8Jeremiah 2:27

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Leviticus 26:1Judges 17:3Judges 17:4Judges 18:14Judges 18:17Isaiah 48:5

(19) Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
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I Kings 18:26I Kings 18:27I Kings 18:28I Kings 18:29Psalms 97:7Isaiah 44:17Jeremiah 51:47Daniel 3:7Daniel 3:18Daniel 3:29Daniel 5:23Jonah 1:5

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Judges 5:12Daniel 5:23Genesis 22:9I Kings 18:33I Chronicles 29:2Deuteronomy 29:17

(20) But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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Psalms 11:4Psalms 115:3Psalms 132:13Psalms 132:14Isaiah 6:1Isaiah 66:1Isaiah 66:6Jonah 2:4Jonah 2:7Ephesians 2:21Ephesians 2:22Psalms 46:10

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II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 23:10Ezra 5:14Jeremiah 7:4I Corinthians 3:17

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