Habakkuk 21-4 (NKJV)

1 I will stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.

2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.

4 Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.

  • Habakkuk is waiting on God for an answer to his complaint about injustice.

  • God tells him to write the vision clearly, because His plans will surely come to pass at the right time.

  • Verse 4 introduces the famous principle: “The just shall live by his faith.” This becomes foundational in the New Testament (Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38).