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

All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.

He said, "Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of wrath, for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to put an end to the transgression, and to make an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the word was true: a great war. And he understood the word, and had understanding of the vision.

As for both these kings, their minds shall be fixed on evil, and they shall speak lies at the table; but it shall not succeed; for still the end shall be at the appointed time.

He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

He made from one every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

But

It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.

For you need patient endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

It will surely

Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.

General references

"Thus speaks the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, 'Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

"For in just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.