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Habakkuk 2:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The prophet contrasts the majesty of Jehovah with these dumb and lifeless idols. His holy temple. Not the shrine at Jerusalem, but heaven itself (see Psalms 11:4, and note on Micah 1:2). Let all the earth keep silence before him. Like subjects in the presence of their king, awaiting his judgment and the issue to which all these things tend (comp. Habakkuk 2:14; Psalms 76:8, etc.; Zephaniah 1:7; Zechariah 2:13). Septuagint, εὀλαβείσθω ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, κ. τ. λ, "Let all the earth fear before him."

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