Habakkuk 2:1-3
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I will h take my stand at my watchpost
and station myself on the tower,
and i look out to see j what he will say to me,
and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
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And the Lord answered me:
k "Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
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For still l the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end - it will not lie.
If it seems slow, m wait for it;
n it will surely come; it will not delay.
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Cross References
Isaiah 21:8
Then he who saw cried out: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.
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Jeremiah 6:17
I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not pay attention.
Ezekiel 33:2
Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman.
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Psalms 85:8
Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.
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Isaiah 8:1
Then the Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Isaiah 30:8
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
Revelation 1:19
Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.
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Daniel 10:14
And came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.
Ezekiel 7:5 - 7
Thus says the Lord God : Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.
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Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait for me," declares the Lord, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
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Hebrews 10:37
For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
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