2Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.


In Context

1 I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.

2 Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.

3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.

4 "See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright- but the righteous will live by his faith -

Habakkuk 2:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and engrave it upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2Yahweh answered me, |Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2And Jehovah answereth me and saith: 'Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tables, that he may run that reads it.