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 time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.

And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall happen in the last end of the indignation. For it is for the time appointed for the end.

Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement 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 to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. And the thing was true, and a great conflict. And he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

And both these kings' hearts shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table. But it shall not succeed. For still the end comes at the time appointed.

And He said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority.

And He has made all nations of men of one blood to dwell on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,

but he is under guardians and housemasters until the term appointed before by the father.

And now you know what holds back, for him to be revealed in his own time.

But

And it happened at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even it was on this very day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.

You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to pity her, yea, the set time, has come.

And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, for their iniquity, and I will make it an everlasting ruin.

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

It will surely

And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

General references

So speaks Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Write all the Words that I have spoken to you in a book.

So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, 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 who shall come will come and will not delay."