Habakkuk Chapter 2 verse 14 Holy Bible
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
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For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.
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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
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For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
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For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover `the bottom of' a sea.
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Habakkuk 2 : 14 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - The prophet now gives the reason of the vanity of these human undertakings. For the earth shall be filled, etc. The words are from Isaiah 11:9, with some little alterations (comp. Numbers 14:21). This is cue of the passages which attests "the community of testimony," as it is called, among the prophets. To take a few out of many cases that offer, Isaiah 2:2-4 compared with Micah 4:1-4; Isaiah 13:19-22 with Jeremiah 50:39, etc.; Isaiah 52:7 with Nahum 1:15; Jeremiah 49:7-22 with Obadiah 1:1-4; Amos 9:13 with Joel 3:18 (Ladd, 'Doctrine of Scripture,' 1:145). All the earth is to be filled with, and to recognize, the glory of God as manifested in the overthrow of ungodliness; and therefore Babylon, and the world power of which she is a type, must be subdued and perish. This announcement looks forward to the establishment of Messiah's kingdom, which "shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and shall stand forever" (Daniel 2:44). We must remember how intimately in the minds of Eastern heathens the prosperity of a nation was connected with its local deities. Nothing in their eyes could show more perfectly the impotence of a god than his failing to protect his worshippers from destruction (comp. 2 Kings 18:33, etc.). The glory of Jehovah and his sovereignty over the earth would be seen and acknowledged in the overthrow of Babylon, the powerful, victorious nation. As the waters cover the sea. As the waters fill the basin of the sea (Genesis 1:22; 1 Kings 7:23, where the great vessel of ablution is called "the sea").
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) With the knowledge.--Better, as concerns the knowledge. See the same promise in Isaiah 11:9. It is here introduced in contrast to the short-lived glory of Babylon. The enslaved nations raised the Babylonian palaces only for the fire to destroy them. But Jehovah's glory shall be made known all the world over, and shall not be effaced.
