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Habakkuk 2:20

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him.”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him!
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Howbeit, Yahweh, is in his holy temple,—Hush before him, all the earth.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And Jehovah [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth tremble before him.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth fear before him.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But Yahweh [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
But Yähwè יָהוֶה 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
[is] in his holy 6944
{6944} Prime
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
{ko'-desh}
From H6942; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstractly sanctity.
temple: 1964
{1964} Prime
הֵיכָל
heykal
{hay-kawl'}
Probably from H3201 (in the sense of capacity); a large public building, such as a palace or temple.
let all x3605
(3605) Complement
כֹּל
kol
{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
the earth 776
{0776} Prime
אֶרֶץ
'erets
{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land).
keep silence 2013
{2013} Prime
הָסָה
hacah
{haw-saw'}
A primitive root; to hush.
z8761
<8761> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 446
before 6440
{6440} Prime
פָּנִים
paniym
{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun (פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.).
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
him.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Habakkuk 2:20

_ _ But the Lord — Jehovah; in striking contrast with the idols.

_ _ in his holy temple — “His place” (Isaiah 26:21); heaven (Psalms 11:4; Jonah 2:7; Micah 1:2). The temple at Jerusalem is a type of it, and there God is to be worshipped. He does not lie hid under gold and silver, as the idols of Babylon, but reigns in heaven and fills heaven, and thence succors His people.

_ _ keep silence — in token of reverent submission and subjection to His judgments (Job 40:4; Psalms 76:8; Zephaniah 1:7; Zechariah 2:13).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Habakkuk 2:15-20.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Habakkuk 2:20

The Lord — He is Jehovah, the fountain of being, life, power, and salvation to his people. Keep silence — Fear, submit, and depend on him; let his enemies be silent, reverence, hope, pray and wait for him, who will arise and have mercy on them, who will make it to be well with the righteous, and ill with the wicked, who will fully and satisfactorily solve the doubts, and unfold the riddles of his providence.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
the LORD[YHWH]:

Psalms 11:4 The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Psalms 115:3 But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Psalms 132:13-14 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired [it] for his habitation. ... This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
Isaiah 66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Jonah 2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah 2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Ephesians 2:21-22 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: ... In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

let all the earth keep silence before him:
Heb. be silent all the earth before him,
Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalms 76:8-9 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, ... When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Zephaniah 1:7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD [is] at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Zechariah 2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Ps 11:4; 46:10; 76:8; 115:3; 132:13. Is 6:1; 66:1, 6. Jna 2:4, 7. Zp 1:7. Zc 2:13. Ep 2:21.

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