Habakkuk 2:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ [OH, I know, I have been rash to talk out plainly this way to God!] I will [in my thinking] stand upon my post of observation and station myself on the tower or fortress, and will watch to see what He will say within me and what answer I will make [as His mouthpiece] to the perplexities of my complaint against Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

Common English Bible

¹ I will take my post; I will position myself on the fortress. I will keep watch to see what the Lord says to me and how he will respond to my complaint.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ I will stand firm during my watch, and fix my position over the fortification. And I will observe carefully, to see what might be said to me and what I might respond to my opponent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I will watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to him that reproveth me.

Habakkuk 2:1 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:24

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.

2 Kings 17:9

And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city,

2 Kings 9:17

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 an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

Job 31:35

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!

Job 31:37

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

Psalm 5:3

O LORD, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.

Psalm 85:8

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 again to folly.

Psalm 85:9

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; That glory may dwell in our land.

Isaiah 21:5

They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

Isaiah 21:6

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth:

Isaiah 21:8

And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights:

Isaiah 62:6

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,

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 6:17

And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

Ezekiel 3:17

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Ezekiel 33:7

So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

2 Corinthians 13:3

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

Galatians 1:16

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