Habakkuk 2:3

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Summary

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.

The vision

But

It will surely

Luke 18:7

2 Peter 2:3

General references

Bible References

The vision

And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

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.

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.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

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.

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.

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;

But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

But

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.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

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.

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

It will surely

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

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.

General references

Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.