Habakkuk 2:1-3

1 I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.^[a]

The LORD’s Answer

2 Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald^[b] may run with it.

3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it^[c] will certainly come and will not delay.

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 21:8
• 2. S Psalms 48:13
• 3. Psalms 85:8
• 4. S Psalms 5:3; S Ezekiel 3:17
• 5. S Isaiah 30:8; S Jeremiah 36:2; S Ezekiel 24:2; S Romans 4:24; Revelation 1:19
• 6. Daniel 11:27
• 7. Daniel 8:17; Daniel 10:14
• 8. S Psalms 27:14
• 9. S Ezekiel 12:25; Hebrews 10:37-38

Footnotes

• [a] Or "and what to answer when I am rebuked"
• [b] Or "so that whoever reads it"
• [c] Or "Though he linger, wait for him;" / "he"