Habakkuk 2:1
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The Just Shall Live by Faith
2 I will (A)stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.
Isaiah 21:8
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8 [a]Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!
I stand continually on the (A)watchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:8 DSS Then the observer cried, “My Lord!
Isaiah 62:6
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6 (A)I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall [a]never hold their peace day or night.
You who [b]make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 62:6 not be silent
- Isaiah 62:6 remember
Psalm 85:8
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8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak,
For He will speak peace
To His people and to His saints;
But let them not turn back to [a]folly.
Footnotes
- Psalm 85:8 foolishness
Psalm 73:16-17
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16 When I thought how to understand this,
It was [a]too painful for me—
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their (A)end.
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:16 troublesome in my eyes
2 Samuel 18:24
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24 Now David was sitting between the (A)two gates. And the watchman went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes and looked, and there was a man, running alone.
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Psalm 5:3
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3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord;
(A)In the morning I will direct it to You,
And I will look up.
2 Corinthians 13:3
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3 since you seek a proof of Christ (A)speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty (B)in you.
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Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah’s Question
12 Righteous (A)are You, O Lord, when I plead with You;
Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?
Isaiah 21:11-12
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Proclamation Against Edom
11 (A)The [a]burden against Dumah.
He calls to me out of (B)Seir,
“Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?”
12 The watchman said,
“The morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
Return! Come back!”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:11 oracle, prophecy
Job 31:37
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37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps;
Like a prince I would approach Him.
Job 23:5-7
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5 I would know the words which He would answer me,
And understand what He would say to me.
6 (A)Would He contend with me in His great power?
No! But He would take note of me.
7 There the upright could reason with Him,
And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
2 Kings 9:17
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17 Now a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company of men.”
And Joram said, “Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, [a]‘Is it peace?’ ”
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- 2 Kings 9:17 Are you peaceful?
Galatians 1:16
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16 (A)to reveal His Son in me, that (B)I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with (C)flesh and blood,
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Habakkuk 1:12-17
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The Prophet’s Second Question
12 Are You not (A)from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
O Lord, (B)You have appointed them for judgment;
O Rock, You have marked them for (C)correction.
13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
And cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
A person more righteous than he?
14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea,
Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore (D)they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is [a]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net,
And continue to slay nations without pity?
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:16 Lit. fat
Isaiah 21:5
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5 (A)Prepare the table,
Set a watchman in the tower,
Eat and drink.
Arise, you princes,
Anoint the shield!
Job 31:35
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35 (A)Oh, that I had one to hear me!
Here is my mark.
Oh, (B)that the Almighty would answer me,
That my [a]Prosecutor had written a book!
Footnotes
- Job 31:35 Lit. Accuser
2 Kings 17:9
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9 Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves [a]high places in all their cities, (A)from watchtower to fortified city.
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- 2 Kings 17:9 Places for pagan worship
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