2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. …
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here, I. The prophet humbly gives his attendance upon God (Hab. 2:1): “ I will stand upon my watch , as a sentinel on the walls of a besieged city, or on the borders of an invaded country, that is very solicitous to gain intelligence. I will look up, will look round, will look within, and watch to see what he will say unto me , will listen attentively to the words of his mouth and carefully observ…
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