Habakkuk 2:1 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

¹ I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look out to see what He will speak by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

²⁴ Now David sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

¹⁷ Now the watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said: 'I see a company.' And Joram said: 'Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say: Is it peace?'

⁹ and the children of Israel did impute things that were not right unto the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

⁵ I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say unto me. ⁶ Would He contend with me in His great power? Nay; but He would give heed unto me. ⁷ There the upright might reason with Him; so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge.

³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! - Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me - and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

³ (5:4) O LORD, in the morning shalt Thou hear my voice; in the morning will I order my prayer unto Thee, and will look forward.

¹⁶ And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes; ¹⁷ Until I entered into the sanctuary of God, and considered their end.

⁸ (85:9) I will hear what God the LORD will speak; for He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

⁵ They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink - 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'

⁸ And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord, I stand continually in the daytime, and I am set in my ward all the nights.'

¹¹ The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?' ¹² The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night - if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'

⁶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, they shall never hold their peace day nor night: 'Ye that are the LORD'S remembrancers, take ye no rest,

¹ Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?

¹² Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, Thou hast ordained them for judgment, and Thou, O Rock, hast established them for correction. ¹³ Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and that canst not look on mischief, wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously, and holdest Thy peace, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he; ¹⁴ And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? ¹⁵ They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag; therefore they rejoice and exult. ¹⁶ Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and offer unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food plenteous. ¹⁷ Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?

³ seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:

¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood: