Habakkuk 2:3 KJV
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Difficult Passages
- Will the vision tarry, or not tarry?It may seem to tarry to those who wait; it won’t tarry past its appointed time.
Scofield Notes
- appointed timeTo the watching prophet comes the response of the "vision" Hab 2:2–20). Three elements are to be distinguished: (1) The moral judgment of Jehovah upon the...
Matthew Henry
- Habakkuk must wait in faithWhen tossed and perplexed with doubts about the methods of Providence, we must watch against temptations to be impatient. When we have poured out complaints...
Parallel Passages
- Hebrews 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
- Daniel 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
- Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
- Lamentations 3:25–26 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. …
- Ezekiel 12:25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:6–8 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. …
- Psalms 102:13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
- Psalms 130:5–6 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. …
- Hebrews 10:36–37 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. …
- Daniel 8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
- Luke 18:7–8 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? …
- Exodus 12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
- 2 Kings 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
- Daniel 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
- Micah 7:7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
- Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
- James 5:7–8 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. …
- 2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- Jeremiah 25:12–14 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. …
- Daniel 8:17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
- Daniel 9:24–10:1 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. …
- Daniel 11:27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
- Luke 2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
- Galatians 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
- Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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Topics
- Faith Enjoined
- Prophecy Sure fulfillment of
- Quotations and allusions In the new testament from, and to, the old testament
- Waiting For the fulfillment of his word
Strong’s Numbers
- For the vision חָזוֹן châzôwn
- yet for an appointed time מוֹעֵד môwʻêd
- but at the end קֵץ qêts
- it shall speak פּוּחַ pûwach
- and not lie כָּזַב kâzab
- though it tarry מָהַהּ mâhahh
- wait חָכָה châkâh
- for it; because it will surely בּוֹא bôwʼ
- come בּוֹא bôwʼ
- it will not tarry אָחַר ʼâchar
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