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Habakkuk 2:3 KJV
Habakkuk · chapter 2 · verse 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.Habakkuk 2:3 · King James Version
What Habakkuk 2:3 means
The verse admits the delay and denies it in the same breath: though it tarry, it will not tarry. Both are true from different ends. Habakkuk had been complaining that God was not acting, and the answer he gets is an appointed time — a date he is not given.
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Habakkuk 2:3 in context
1I 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.
2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3For 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.
4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
5Yea 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:
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 27:14
- Hebrews 10:36-37
- Ezekiel 12:25
- Lamentations 3:25-26
- Psalms 102:13
- Psalms 130:5-6
- Daniel 10:14
- James 5:7-8
Key words (Strong's)
- visionchâzôwna sightH2377 →
- surelybôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- speakpûwachto puffH6315 →
- tarrymâhahhproperly, to question or hesitateH4102 →
- timemôwʻêdproperly, an appointmentH4150 →
- waitchâkâhproperly, to adhere toH2442 →
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Here, I. The prophet humbly gives his attendance upon God (Hab 2:1): "I will stand upon my watch, as a sentinel on the walls of a besieged city, or on the borders of an invaded country, that is very solicitous to gain intelligence.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4