Habakkuk:2

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* I will stand upon my (note :)I will renounce my own judgment , and only depend on God to be instructed what I will answer those that abuse my preaching , and to be armed against all temptations .(:note ) watch , and seat myself upon the tower , and will watch to see what he will say to me , and what I shall answer when I am reproved . * And the LORD answered me , and said , Write the vision , and make [it ] plain upon tablets , that he may run (note :)Write it in great letters , that he that runneth may read it .(:note ) that readeth it . * For the vision [is ] yet for an appointed time , but at the (note :)Which contained the destruction of the enemy , and the comfort of the Church . And even though God does not execute this according to man 's hasty affections , yet the issue of both is certain at his appointed time .(:note ) end it shall speak , and not lie : though it may tarry , wait for it ; because it will surely come , it will not tarry . * Behold , (note :)To trust in himself , or in any worldly thing , is never to be at peace : for the only rest is to trust in God by faith ; ( Rom_1:17 ; Gal_3:11 ; Heb_10:38 ).(:note ) his soul [which ] is lifted up is not upright in him : but the just shall live by his faith . * Yea also , because (note :)He compares the proud and covetous man to a drunkard that is without reason and sense , whom God will punish and make a laughing stock to all the world : and this he speaks for the comfort of the godly , and against the Chaldeans .(:note ) he transgresseth by wine , [he is ] a proud man , neither keepeth at home , who enlargeth his desire as hell , and [is ] as death , and cannot be satisfied , but gathereth to him all nations , and heapeth to him all people : * Shall not all these take up a parable against him , and a taunting proverb against him , and say , Woe to him that increaseth [that which is ] not his ! (note :)Signifying that all the world will wish the destruction of tyrants , and that by their oppression and covetousness , they heap but upon themselves more heavy burdens : for the more they get , the more are they troubled .(:note ) how long ? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay ! * Shall (note :)That is , the Medes and persians , that would destroy the Babylonians ?(:note ) they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee , and awake that shall oppress thee , and thou shalt be for booty to them ? * Because thou hast spoyled many nations , all the remnant of the people shal spoyle thee , because of mens blood , and for the wrong done in the land , in the citie , and vnto all that dwell therein . * Ho , he that coueteth an euil couetousnesse to his house , that he may set his nest on hie , to escape from the power of euil . * Thou (note :)Signifying that the covetous man is the ruin of his own house , when he thinks to enrich it be cruelty and oppression .(:note ) gavest shameful counsel to thy house by cutting off many people , and hast sinned [against ] thy soul . * For the (note :)The stones of the house will cry , and say that they are built from blood , and the wood will answer and say the same of itself .(:note ) stone shall cry out of the wall , and the beam out of the timber shall answer it . * Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood , and erecteth a citie by iniquitie . * Behold , [is it ] not from the (note :)Meaning , that God will not defer his vengeance long , but will come and destroy all their labours , as though they were consumed with fire .(:note ) LORD of hosts that the people shall labour [only ] for fire , and the nations shall weary themselves for nothing ? * For the earth shall (note :)In the destruction of the Babylonians his glory will appear through all the world .(:note ) be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD , as the waters cover the sea . * Woe to him that giveth his neighbour (note :)He reproaches by this the king of Babylon , who as he was drunken with covetousness and cruelty , so he provoked others to the same , and inflamed them by his madness , and so in the end brought them to shame .(:note ) drink , that puttest thy bottle to [him ], and makest [him ] drunk also , that thou mayest look on their nakedness ! * Thou art filled with shame (note :)Whereas you thought to have the glory of these your doings , they will turn to your shame : for you will drink of the same cup with others in your turn .(:note ) for glory : drink thou also , and let thy shame come upon thee : the cup of the LORD 'S right hand shall be turned to thee , and utter shame [shall be ] on thy glory . * For the (note :)Because the Babylonians were cruel not only against other nations , but also against the people of God , which is meant by Lebanon and the beast in it , he shows that the same cruelly will be executed against them .(:note ) violence of Lebanon shall cover thee , and the spoil of beasts , [which ] made them afraid , because of men 's blood , and for the violence of the land , of the city , and of all that dwell in it . * What profiteth the graven (note :)He shows that the Babylonian gods could not help them at all , for they were but blocks or stones . {{See Jer_10:8 }}(:note ) image that its maker hath engraved it ; the molten image , and a teacher of lies , that the maker of his work trusteth in it , to make dumb idols ? * Woe to him that saith to the wood , Awake ; to the dumb stone , Arise , it shall teach ! (note :)If you will consider what it is , and how it has neither breath nor life , but is a dead thing .(:note ) Behold , it [is ] laid over with gold and silver , and [there is ] no breath at all within it . * But the Lord is in his holy Temple : let all the earth keepe silence before him .

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