Habakkuk 2:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
God’s Reply to the Prophet’s Complaint
2 I will stand at my watch-post,
and station myself on the rampart;
I will keep watch to see what he will say to me,
and what he[a] will answer concerning my complaint.
2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so that a runner may read it.
3 For there is still a vision for the appointed time;
it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:1 Syr: Heb I
Habakkuk 3:16-19
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
16 I hear, and I tremble within;
my lips quiver at the sound.
Rottenness enters into my bones,
and my steps tremble[a] beneath me.
I wait quietly for the day of calamity
to come upon the people who attack us.
Trust and Joy in the Midst of Trouble
17 Though the fig tree does not blossom,
and no fruit is on the vines;
though the produce of the olive fails
and the fields yield no food;
though the flock is cut off from the fold
and there is no herd in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
I will exult in the God of my salvation.
19 God, the Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
and makes me tread upon the heights.[b]
To the leader: with stringed[c] instruments.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 3:16 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
- Habakkuk 3:19 Heb my heights
- Habakkuk 3:19 Heb my stringed
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