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Habakkuk 2:1

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    2:1 Or to me

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    2:1 Var. he will make

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    11/2018, pp. 15-16

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1204

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2007, p. 10

    2/1/2000, pp. 12, 14

    5/15/1989, p. 25

    9/15/1977, p. 575

    6/1/1977, p. 349

  • Publications Index

    w18.11 15-16; it-1 1204; w07 11/15 10; w00 2/1 12, 14; w89 5/15 25;

    w77 349; w77 575; w35 147

Habakkuk 2:2

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    2:2 (to be read swiftly) Lit. in order that the reader may run

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    11/2018, pp. 13-14

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1204

    The Watchtower,

    6/15/1979, p. 3

    6/1/1977, p. 349

    6/1/1957, pp. 325-326

    Awake!,

    2/8/1972, pp. 27-28

  • Publications Index

    w18.11 14; it-1 1204;

    w79 6/15 3; w77 349; g72 2/8 27-28; w57 325; w35 148-149

Habakkuk 2:3

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    2:3 Conj. for vision is witness for the set time, to depose

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    2:3 Or end and not lie

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    11/2018, p. 16

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/2015, pp. 16-17

    12/15/2006, p. 17

    2/1/2000, pp. 14-15

    1/15/2000, p. 10

    11/15/1998, pp. 16-17

    1/1/1997, pp. 12-13

    5/1/1985, pp. 3-4

    6/15/1979, p. 3

    2/1/1979, p. 24

    6/1/1977, p. 349

    12/15/1976, pp. 752, 756

    5/1/1975, p. 284

    1/15/1974, pp. 56-57

    4/1/1973, pp. 195-196

    6/1/1957, pp. 325-326

    Jehovah’s Day, pp. 152-154, 164

    “All Scripture,” p. 163

  • Publications Index

    w18.11 16; w15 8/15 16-17; w06 12/15 17; jd 152-154, 164; w00 1/15 10; w00 2/1 14-15; w98 11/15 16-17; w97 1/1 12-13; si 163;

    w85 5/1 3-4; w79 2/1 24; w79 6/15 3; w77 349; w76 752, 756; w75 284; w74 56-57; w73 195; g63 12/22 8; w57 325; w40 239; w35 150

Habakkuk 2:4

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    2:4-5a Susp.

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    2:4 Var. I take

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    11/2018, pp. 16-17

    Jehovah’s Day, pp. 25, 187-188

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 15

    12/15/1999, pp. 20-21

    11/1/1985, p. 30

    6/15/1979, pp. 3-4

    12/15/1976, pp. 758-759

    “All Scripture,” pp. 162-163

    Happiness, pp. 138-139

  • Publications Index

    w18.11 16-17; jd 25, 187-188; w00 2/1 15; w99 12/15 20-21; si 162-163;

    w85 11/1 30; hp 138-139; w79 6/15 3-4; w76 758-759; im 278; g63 12/22 6; w35 151

Habakkuk 2:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2007, p. 10

    2/1/2000, pp. 15-16

    5/15/1989, p. 25

    6/15/1980, p. 31

    1/15/1965, pp. 49-50

    1/15/1962, p. 59

  • Publications Index

    w07 11/15 10; w00 2/1 15-16; w89 5/15 25;

    w80 6/15 31; w65 49; g63 12/22 6; w62 59; w35 151

Habakkuk 2:6

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    2:6 Codd. and he shall say or and one shall say

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 16

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 16;

    g63 12/22 7; w35 152

Habakkuk 2:7

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    2:7 Or Will not your biters

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g63 12/22 7; w35 152

Habakkuk 2:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 16

    6/1/1977, pp. 349-350

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 16;

    w77 349-350; g63 12/22 7; w35 153

Habakkuk 2:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 16

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 16;

    g63 12/22 7; w35 153

Habakkuk 2:10

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    2:10 (maiming) Unc.

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  • Publications Index

    w35 154

Habakkuk 2:11

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    2:11 Or a stone will cry out from a wall, and a joist out of woodwork will back it up

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2007, p. 10

    2/1/2000, pp. 16-17

    10/15/1953, p. 639

  • Publications Index

    w07 11/15 10; w00 2/1 16-17;

    w53 639; w35 155

Habakkuk 2:12

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 161

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 17

  • Publications Index

    it-1 161; w00 2/1 17;

    ad 118; bf 18; g63 12/22 7; w35 163

Habakkuk 2:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 17

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 17;

    w35 164

Habakkuk 2:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    11/2018, pp. 16-17

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, pp. 17-18

    7/15/1973, p. 428

    4/15/1957, pp. 238-240

    4/1/1951, pp. 209-211

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 405-407

  • Publications Index

    w18.11 16-17; w00 2/1 17-18;

    w73 428; bi8-71 1357; kj 406; bi8-63 3579; w57 239; nh 360; w51 210; fd 27; w42 103; w35 165, 270; w32 3; ho 28; w31 42

Habakkuk 2:15

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    2:15 Or your neighbor

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    2:15 Codd. have your friend drink, add your venom, and befuddle

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 18

    8/15/1951, pp. 510-511

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 18;

    g63 12/22 7; w51 510; w35 166

Habakkuk 2:16

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    2:16 Or You have your fill of ignominy out of glory

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 18

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 18;

    g63 12/22 7; w35 167

Habakkuk 2:17

Footnotes

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    2:17 (last half) Susp.

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    2:17 Or more than bloodshed

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 232

  • Publications Index

    it-2 232;

    ad 1052; w35 168

Habakkuk 2:18

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g63 12/22 8; g37 2/24 332; w36 30; w35 170

Habakkuk 2:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, pp. 18-19

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 18-19;

    g63 12/22 8; w36 30; w35 171

Habakkuk 2:20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2000, p. 19

    12/15/1973, p. 746

    12/1/1972, pp. 712-713

    11/15/1955, pp. 688-689

    “All Scripture,” p. 161

  • Publications Index

    w00 2/1 19; si 161;

    w73 746; w72 712-713; w55 688; ep 249; w43 377; w38 141, 173; w37 367; w35 172; w34 70; jh 53; w33 247; le32 47; w31 262; v-1 109; w30 362

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The Bible in Living English
Habakkuk 2:1-20

Habakkuk

2** I will stand at my post and station myself on guard and be on the lookout to see what he will say by me and what response I shall make to my reproach.

2* And Jehovah answered me and said “Write a vision and set it forth clearly on the tablets to be read swiftly; 3** for there is yet a vision for the date, to depose of the end, and it will not lie. If it delays, wait for it; for come it will, and not be belated.”

4** Now in the timeserver he takes no satisfaction, but the honest man shall live by his steadfastness; 5 how much less shall a faithless brute be pleasing, a haughty man, who has distended his appetite like the grave, being like death insatiable, and has gathered in all the nations and swept up all the peoples! 6* Shall not all these strike up a lay of him and propound a satire on him, and say “Ha, you who amass—for how long?—what is not yours, and load yourself up with things you have taken in pawn! 7* Will not your creditors stand up suddenly and your worriers wake, and you be for their pillaging? 8 Because you have despoiled many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall despoil you, for bloodshed of men and outrage to earth, town and all who live in it.

9 “Ha, you who make hurtful winnings for your house, placing your nest aloft, to come off safe out of the clutch of disaster! 10* You have contrived shame for your house, maiming many peoples and letting your life be the forfeit; 11* for stones will cry out from walls, and joists out of woodwork will back them up.

12 “Ha, you who build a city by bloodshed and found a town by foul play!” 13 (Is not that from Jehovah of Armies?) “And peoples toil to feed fire, and folk upon folk spends itself bootlessly.” 14 (For the earth shall be full of knowledge of Jehovah’s glory like water that covers a sea.)

15** “Ha, you who have your friend drink out of your bowl and your bag, and befuddle him too, in order to look at their nudity! 16* You are fuller loaded with ignominy than with glory; drink yourself and show off your uncircumcised body; the cup in Jehovah’s right hand shall come round to you, and shabbiness come over your glory. 17** For the outrage to Lebanon shall cover you, and the havoc of beasts shall dismay you, for bloodshed of men and outrage to earth, town and all who live in it.”

18 Of what use is a statue that its sculptor should have carved it, a bronze and a lying oracle that its modeler should have put his confidence in it, so as to make dumb trumperies? 19 Ha, you who say to wood “Wake up, stir yourself!” of silent stone “That will give instructions”! There is that cased in gold and silver, with no soul within it. 20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple: silence before him, all the earth!

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