Habakkuk Waits for God’s Response

I will stand at my guard post
and station myself on the lookout tower.(A)
I will watch to see what he will say to me(B)
and what I should[a] reply about my complaint.

God’s Second Answer

The Lord answered me:

Write down this vision;(C)
clearly inscribe it on tablets
so one may easily read it.[b]
For the vision is yet for the appointed time;(D)
it testifies about the end and will not lie.
Though it delays, wait for it,
since it will certainly come and not be late.(E)
Look, his ego is inflated;[c]
he is without integrity.
But the righteous one will live by his faith.[d](F)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:1 Syr reads what he will
  2. 2:2 Lit one who reads in it may run
  3. 2:4 Hb obscure
  4. 2:4 Or faithfulness

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