Habakkuk 2:20

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But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Thus says Yahweh, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?

I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."

You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.