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Habakkuk Chapter 2

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HABAKKUK

Habakkuk 2

1I will stand vpon my watch, and set me vpon the towre, and wil looke and see what he would say vnto mee, and what I shall answere to him that rebuketh me.
Isaiah 21:8, Isaiah 21:8, Isaiah 62:6, Isaiah 62:6, 2 Samuel 18:24
2And the Lord answered me, and sayde, Write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it.
Isaiah 30:8, Isaiah 30:8, Revelation 14:13, Revelation 14:13, Revelation 1:18
3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shall speake, and not lie: though it tarie, waite: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.
Psalms 27:14, Psalms 27:14, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 10:37, Hebrews 10:36
4Beholde, he that lifteth vp himselfe, his minde is not vpright in him, but the iust shall liue by his fayth,
Romans 1:17, Romans 1:17, Hebrews 10:38, Hebrews 10:38, Galatians 3:11
5Yea, in deede the proude man is as hee that transgresseth by wine: therefore shall he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, and is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, and heapeth vnto him all people.
Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Proverbs 27:20
6Shall not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say, Ho, he that increaseth that which is not his? howe long? and hee that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay?
Isaiah 14:4, Isaiah 14:19, Numbers 23:7, Jeremiah 50:13, Job 20:15
7Shall they not rise vp suddenly, that shall bite thee? and awake, that shall stirre thee? and thou shalt be their praye?
Proverbs 29:1, Proverbs 29:1, Jeremiah 50:21, Jeremiah 50:32, Isaiah 47:11
8Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.
Isaiah 33:1, Isaiah 33:1, Habakkuk 2:17, Habakkuk 2:17, Jeremiah 27:7
9Ho, he that coueteth an euil couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euil.
Jeremiah 49:16, Jeremiah 49:16, Jeremiah 22:13, Jeremiah 22:19, Jeremiah 22:13
10Thou hast consulted shame to thine owne house, by destroying many people, and hast sinned against thine owne soule.
Nahum 1:14, 2 Kings 9:26, Nahum 1:14, 2 Kings 9:26, 2 Kings 10:7
11For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shall answere it.
Luke 19:40, Luke 19:40, Joshua 24:27, Joshua 24:27, James 5:3
12Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.
Micah 3:10, Micah 3:10, Daniel 4:27, Daniel 4:31, Nahum 3:1
13Beholde, is it not of the Lord of hostes that the people shall labour in ye very fire? the people shall euen weary themselues for very vanitie.
Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:58, Isaiah 50:11, Isaiah 50:11, Isaiah 41:5
14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters couer the sea.
Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 11:9, Psalms 22:27, Psalms 22:27, Psalms 72:19
15Wo vnto him that giueth his neighbour drinke: thou ioynest thine heate, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest see their priuities.
Jeremiah 51:7, Jeremiah 51:7, Genesis 9:22, Genesis 9:22, Revelation 17:6
16Thou art filled with shame for glorie: drinke thou also, and be made naked: the cup of the Lords right hand shall be turned vnto thee, and shamefull spuing shalbe for thy glory.
Isaiah 47:3, Isaiah 47:3, Nahum 3:5, Nahum 3:6, Nahum 3:5
17For the crueltie of Lebanon shall couer thee: so shall the spoyle of the beastes, which made them afraide, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk 2:8, Habakkuk 2:8, Psalms 55:23, Zechariah 11:1, Psalms 55:23
18What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles.
Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 10:8, 1 Corinthians 12:2, Isaiah 44:9, Isaiah 44:10
19Wo vnto him that sayth to the wood, Awake, and to the dumme stone, Rise vp, it shall teach thee: beholde, it is layde ouer with golde and siluer, and there is no breath in it.
Psalms 135:17, Psalms 135:17, Jeremiah 10:4, Jeremiah 10:4, Jeremiah 10:9
20But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
Zechariah 2:13, Zechariah 2:13, Zephaniah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:7, Psalms 46:10

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