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Habakkuk 2:20

Habakkuk 2:20
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And now having declared the nothingness of all which is not God, the power of man or his gods, he answers again his own question, by summoning all before the presence of the majesty of God. But the…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The Lord is in his holy temple - Jehovah has his temple, the place where he is to be worshipped; but there there is no image. Oracles, however, are given forth; and every word of them is truth, and is…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Habakkuk 2:15-20

The three foregoing articles, upon which the woes here are grounded, are very near akin to each other. The criminals charged by them are oppressors and extortioners, that raise estates by rapine and…